Student Council (StuCo)
In addition to their office duties and responsibilities, these students:
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Create and coordinate student leadership development activities
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Coordinate and run Thursday am StuCo meetings
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Coordinated HC events: comm. pep rally, class skits, designed and created HC decorations
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Demonstrate and initiate school pride
For the school these students have been major players in the following:
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Raised almost $240,000 for Relay for Life (doesn’t count 2010), and designing, creating, organizing, and working Relay for Life events and activities, building and working on the site
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Raised almost $70,000 for other local and global charities, including the Norcross Co-op and American Red Cross Haiti Relief fund
Gwinnett Student Leadership Team (GSLT)
After an application and interview selection process, three seniors and three juniors are selected to represent NGHS at the monthly county-wide student leadership training sessions held at the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce. Students' junior year involves learning leadership principles while their senior year focuses on implementing positive change for school improvement at their local schools. They help to create lesson plans and training sessions for our Freshmen Mentors, organize new student support, develop leadership lecture series for all students, and are a part of the Norcross Student Leadership Team (NSLT).