The grass is green and the sun is shining…apart from the regular Northern Ontario May snowfall. Regardless of the depressing snowy and rainy weather, students are still bustling around the halls of MSS as we race toward the end of the school year.
On Wednesday, May 3 a group of Grade 9 and 10 student leaders went to the Stand Up Speak Out conference at Cambrian College. This annual conference is run by the Student Senate, a group of student ambassadors from schools across the Rainbow District School Board. The conference featured a motivational speaker and escape artist Scott Hammell. Mr. Hammell taught students important lessons like achieving the impossible is possible if you break it down into small parts. For example, he showed students how to escape from a straitjacket or how to trick their audience by taking the focus off of them. The conference also had many break-out rooms and teamwork activities. Break-out rooms had a variety of different topics to choose from including, mental health, truth and reconciliation, LGBTQIA2S+, environmentalism and many more. Later in the conference, students were broken up into groups and had 20 minutes to create a pitch for a LEGO mascot they made earlier in the day. These pitches were presented to the entire auditorium and were judged based on the loudest applause. Students went home with new energy and inspiration for leadership at their schools.
For those in Grade 10, if you are interested in being a part of the student senate an application form was sent out the day of the conference.
On the same day, Manitoulin Metal was interviewed by FIRST Canada on their Twitch channel. A few members of the team spoke about what the world championship they attended meant to them and their experiences there. The interview was hosted by Karthik Kanagasabapathy, a celebrity in FIRST Canada.
Exciting news for sports fans, both tennis and track and field are hosting try-outs now! Sign-up sheets went out last week and tryouts are being hosted throughout the next week. Track and field athletes have a pre-NSSSA event on May 17 at Central Algoma Secondary School.
Spymaster is in full swing this week after students got the names of their targets on Friday, May 5. The purpose of Spymaster is to “pin” your target with a clothespin, once you do this your target is out and you get their target. This process continues until there is one person standing. The competition commenced on Monday, May 8 and will continue for the next couple weeks as participating students lurk around the school trying not to get “pinned.”
That is all for this issue of Kids in the Hall. I hope everyone has a wonderful week! Until next time, go Mustangs, go!
