Grand Junction High School’s Student Council has grown to their biggest number of members ever.
This year StuCo has 46 members, which is the most they have ever had according to StuCo co-president senior Addie Boss.
GJHS history teacher Mark Wilson is the StuCo adviser. He has been a teacher at GJHS for six years.
Despite being the only adviser this year, after co-advising with teacher Lisa Moot in previous years, said the change hasn’t been a challenge for them because of the many students in StuCo this year.
“We use something called delegation, which is where I tell the seniors what to do and they tell the juniors and sophomores what to do which makes it easy for everyone,” said Wilson.
This year StuCo has done spirit weeks, homecoming activities, and mental health week so far this year. There are also other teacher recognition events.
“We normally start our day off by Maycie and I going over the tasks for the week/day then we tell everyone to break off in committees and the rest of class they work on the events they need to plan for. Typically we are working on dances or events like teacher breakfast or mental health week. Today [12/17] we held cookies and cram in the library so we spent last week and some of this week working on that.”
The future of StuCo holds a lot of new plans that GJHS students can look forward to and attend. As an example, they did the annual cookies and cram event that happened Dec. 17 after school in the library from 3:30-5 p.m. to study for final exams.
“The best StuCo project this year so far is the mental health week, because it was exciting for StuCo to pick the room activities and that they get a break. It was really fun for everyone to plan and look after their own mental health,” said Wilson.
The next StuCo event will be Sometime after winter break at Tope Elementary School to read to the students.
“We have StuCo elections in March where people can get a form to fill out and run for Stuco. Then you have to get voted in. For incoming freshmen, we hold interviews for 8th graders wanting to join and we pick around eight of them,” according to Boss.
