Students Empowerment

Planning has begun! Some very new faces and very familiar faces, but stay tuned to see what we’re up to this year!

StuEm 2022 Summer Summit in films!

2021-22 has been quite the year for us! While we wish our seniors farewell and send them our well wishes for their next journeys, we can’t wait to see what they accomplished next. To wrap up the fun, the team voted

Richard Leng - Most likely to be late to meetings
Tiffany Tran - Most likely to get away with anything
Kenny Phan - Most Likely to win a Grammy/Tony/Oscar
Truc Dao - Most likely to find a cure for cancer
Daniel Gonzalez - Most likely to fight aliens
Tiffany Nguyen - Most likely to take over the world

Senior of the Year - Truc Dao
Member of the Year - Andrew Le

Its been an absolute blast! See you for another action year!

Grad highlights!

Last but definitely not least is our 2021-22 Fundraising Coordinator Tiffany Nguyen. Tiffany graduated from Northeast High as her class’ Valedictorian and KWCH’s Top of The Class recipient. She is also a Lil Egie and McDonald Scholar from WSU LAS.

Grad highlights!

Today we highlight our 2020-22 Research Director, Richard Leng. Richard has been our Research Director since we first started, and has recently graduated from South High. Richard will be attending KU this fall as a Chancellor’s scholar.

Grad highlights!

Daniel Gonzalez is one of our 2020-22 researcher. Graduating from South High, Daniel will be attending WSU Tech. He is also a WSU Tech Signing Day scholar!

Grad highlights!

Up in the spotlight today is our 2020-22 team Secretary, Tiffany Tran. Graduating from South High, Tiffany will be attending Newman University with a STEM Promise Scholarship.

Grad highlights!

Today we are highlighting our 2021-22 Team Coordinator, Kenny Phan, a student at Southeast Highschool. Kenny is also a scholar of The String Division of the Kansas Music Educator Association and the WSU School of Music!

Grad highlights!
Starting off this week is our 2020-22 Director, Truc! Graduating as Salutatorian of her class at South High, Truc is a United Way’s Aaron Joel Smith Memorial Youth Volunteer, Wichita Community Foundation’s Optimist Memorial, and Immigration Heritage Scholar!

Our recruitment application has official opened! We hope to have you joined us!! https://bit.ly/3x2AZeb

Application is open to all high-school and middle-school students within the metropolitan area!

As one of YLINK’s (Youth Leaders in Kansas) team, today our ‘22 Director and V-Director attended the YLINK Summer Leadership Conference where they presented StuEm’s year in full, as well as share about the City of Wichita to the rest of the groups. They were than surprised with an Outstanding Youth Leader Award! Mirror, Inc

Our recruitment application has official opened! We hope to have you joined us!! https://bit.ly/3x2AZeb

before we sign off tonight, remember “strive to serve, strive to change”
- love the StuEm team

And here’s to the team. Last year we were a small group of students at Wichita South High School, but this year, we are Youth Leaders in Kansas. As a part of YLINK, we have been given the opportunity to spread our impact further beyond just our high school. And while our team now includes Southeast and Northeast, next year we might spread further in the metropolitan area…

Also a little kudos to some our very own starfish: Andrew Le, Daniel Gonzalez, Truc Dao, Tiffany Nguyen, Tiffany Tran, Yen Lam, Richard Leng, and Kenny Phan for lettering in student leadership for Wichita Public Schools today!

Many nods, laughters and questions. This crowd of audience definitely got the panelists in hot seats. So many questions asked, and so many answers given. Change starts today, so join us and the young people in this community to advocate and work for that change!

Our amazing panelists! Thank you to these amazing individuals for taking the time out of their day to come and speak to us about diversity and inclusion, food insecurity, mental health and the importance of civics engagement. The stories that were shared, advice given to the youth, we can’t thanks these phenomenal souls enough.

With spring right around the corner, join our team at Freezing Moo on Greenwhich, Sunday, April 3rd for some rolled ice cream!! All proceeds go towards our student leadership panel and help stock up the ICT Community Fridge.

Come join us for the Youth Leaders Panel on April 9th from 11-3:30!!

With the slow return of normal life, let’s create a safe haven for young people to learn how they can initiate a change that they have always dreamed of.

Thank you to Representative Xu, Haswood, Hoye, and Byers for giving us some of your time to today! It was an absolute joy for us to discuss issues that affect our youth! Future leaders in action!

South and Southeast spread a wave of kindness with the “Share Kindness” wall this week. We hope everyone did phenomenal on their finals. With winter break here, we wish you a well rested break and Happy Holidays! The Wichita Beacon

South and Southeast spread a wave of kindness with the “Share Kindness” wall this week. We hope everyone did phenomenal on their finals. With winter break here, we wish you a well rested break and Happy Holidays! Truc Dao and Andrew Le

https://wichitabeacon.org/stories/2021/12/17/icteens-in-mind-youth-mental-health/

Wichita teens want a bigger voice in meeting their mental health needs ICTeens in Mind puts students at the forefront of responding to a growing mental health crisis.