Highlands Leadership Conference 2018

1.... 2.... 3... LEADERS UNITE!!!  The annual Highlands Leadership Conference 2018 featured all 8 Pearl City elementary schools this year: Momilani, Waiau, PCHES, PCES, Manana, Kanoelani, Palisades, and Lehua.  All Pearl City Student Councils united and arrived at the HIS StuCo Room on Friday 1/19/18 to have a day full of learning, fun activities, and memories they’ll never, ever forget!  The purpose of HLC2018 is to teach all the Pearl City Complex Student Councils the meaning of being a leader, to understand their overall role of being a student council leader, and how we can all have fun while learning!  With this conference they all got a ton of incredible ideas for activities, created their StuCo Vision & Mission statements and how they could all achieve a balanced student activities program via the National Student Council Pillars of Voice-Engagement-Leadership-Service.  A side benefit was building a stronger relationship between all the Pearl City Complex Student Councils -- this helps with our goal to provide awesome activities to make school a fun and safe place to learn in the Pearl City Complex.  For this event some of our very own Highlands Student Council members facilitated all the energizers, challenges, and the lessons. We also tried to make sure that everyone felt safe and welcomed all day long ;)  We ended the conference with a challenge to all: about giving 100% in everything we do so that the legacy we leave behind will stand the test of time....  After that final lesson, we said our goodbyes to the elementary school students and advisors, and thanked them for coming.  This was such a fun event to be apart of... Everyone learned so much and didn't want it to end!  We can't wait for what'll be in store for Highlands Leadership Conference 2019 ;)  Skyla, SG Vice-President

Highlands Leadership Conference 2017

The inaugural Highlands Leadership Conference was a big time success! All the Pearl City elementary schools — Momilani, PCES, Manana, PCHES, Waiau, Palisades, and Lehua — all came down to the Student Council Room for a fun-filled day of learning and lots of memories! The main purpose of HLC2017 was to institute a yearly Pearl City Complex student council summit, creating a venue for idea sharing and collaboration that had not previously existed. This event would provide a venue for all of us to 1.) identify and understand the structure of Student Council/Leadership at each Pearl City school 2.) how we could cooperate in activities as a complex.  This vertical alignment would result in mutual understanding and future collaborations between not only our Student Councils/Leadership, but also collaborations between entire schools 3.) get to know the advisors at each of the Pearl City complex schools, and 4.) build and improve relationships throughout the Pearl City Complex Student Councils. This collaboration will help us with our main Student Council goal of providing amazing student activities to make school a safe and fun place to learn across the entire Pearl City Complex! Our very own Highlands Intermediate Student Council members helped facilitate the activities, lessons, energizers, and challenges, making sure every guest felt safe and comfortable throughout the day. To top it all off, we had a special guest performer, a magician -- Takeshi — to perform a an amazing magic show and to emphasize the theme for HLC2017, “The Magic of Leadership!” As the day started to come to an end, we wrapped it up with a lesson on how to leave a legacy….We said our goodbyes to the elementary student councils and thanked them for attending. Everyone had fun and learned more about leadership in the process. We hope next year can be just as great, or maybe even more magical than this year’s event!  Taylor, SG Vice-President