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NS Selected five new Student Body Officers for 2024-25.
Brandt Lund was selected as president, Alivia Madsen as vice president, Jackson Dimmick as secretary, Gracie Larson as activity agent, and Angela Vasquez as media specialist.
Congrats to the new SBOs!
See what they hope to achieve below!
Brandt Lund, President
What motivates you?
I am motivated by the connections I share with the people around me and the new ones I make as I go through life. I love interacting with others and I strive to be an example to everyone. I am also motivated by a desire to accomplish personal goals. I want to make a good lifestyle for myself. I believe that through hard work and building these connections that I can go however far I would like so long as I do the right things and keep my mind set on success.
What do you love about NS?
I love the determination so many students at NS have to improve. I love the opportunities we receive, regardless of coming from a small school. Many students at NS have clear goals for their lives and balance school and extracurricular activities in order to pursue them. Everyone knows everyone and I love the moments when we can look past differences, and unite to succeed. I know that when we do, we accomplish amazing things.
What do you want to achieve next year if voted in?
My ultimate goal is to leave everyone and everything within our school better. I believe that every person has value and something to contribute, regardless of their situations or beliefs. Knowing this, I want to give students the opportunity to have a say in our school and find activities and events that will include everyone and unite them to better our school. I want to work with our student leadership to create a better environment here at NS for everyone.
Alivia Madsen, Vice President
What motivates you?
I am motivated by people around me. My teammates have helped me to stay going forward to reach success. Which is another motivator. Success. Knowing that I can achieve something great through my hard work is a huge part of why I keep going through the toughest times.
What do you love about NS?
My favorite part about NS is the connection between students. Watching people who have very busy lives still coming to support their peers has been very humbling. It’s amazing to see everyone so excited at games, it brings a connection that’s unmatched to anything else. I love when we do activities as a school where we come closer together, because in the end what matters most is how we treat others and the friendships we make. I love the close connection our school has.
What do you want to achieve next year if voted in?
My main goal as an SBO would be to give the students a voice. I think that we can improve our communication between students and class officers. I want students to have a say in things like themes for games, dances they want during the year, and activities we run. I want to meet with classes during the year to make sure students are feeling heard and know that their opinion matters. I also want to have an anonymous box in the office where students can write ideas they have that we as SBO’s can put into action.
Jackson Dimmick, Secretary
What motivates you?
What motivates me everyday is the willingness to help others, while helping myself achieve goals that I have set for myself. These goals range from college assignments, completing tasks from coaches and helping teachers with what they need. Helping others can give them a chance to achieve their goals or help complete things that they won’t be able to get done. This willingness and motivation has created social connections in this school as well in the community.
What do you love about NS?
The students, teachers and support. When teachers work with students like they have done for me, it creates a relationship with that student and by extension the class that the student is going through high school with . Students are the ones that create the fun, they are the ones that show up to games, events, assemblies, and more. The opinion that the SBOs make it fun is false, SBOs just execute the fun ideas that the students want. Support for others creates a fun highschool social experience that students and others can enjoy.
What do you want to achieve next year if voted in?
To give more positions for students to voice their opinions, and by extension use myself as a beacon to be a voice for the students who don’t have one. I want to ask students what they want, not what previous years of leadership have done and go by what they think students want. The opinions and the ideas of the students can create new and more experiences that others want, and I can use myself to present these ideas to help make our highschool more fun and change the more traditional ways that we have. As stated before in a more unique way, SBOs dont make the fun, students do, SBOs execute.
Gracie Larson, Activity Agent
What motivates you?
The things that motivate me are my loved ones, friends, future, and religion. All of these thing make me want to be a better person. I strive to be better for my peers and for myself.
What do you love about NS?
I love that NS everyone knows everyone. I think that because of that I can connect to anyone. It’s fun to be able to go to a small school and know about their lives and achievements. I love that NS helps each other out, like the make a wish foundation this year. We were able to help our community out.
What do you want to achieve next year if voted in?
If voted in or not I offer my friendship to everyone. I want to achieve a more loving and caring environment. When it was my freshman year the seniors all supported each other and that was the best year of high school because of it. I know that our school can return to being the best it can be. I will also achieve some more hands on activities
Angela Vasquez, Media Specialist
What motivates you?
I would say my friends and family motivate me the most. They push me to be a better version of myself everyday. But along with my friends and family my peers also motivate me. They motivate me because I see them achieving goals and it pushes me to achieve my own goals.
What do you love about ns?
I love our school spirit when we actually go out and support all of our teams. I just love our student sections. They are definitely part of the high school experience I would say. I also love all the friends I have made at NS throughout the years.
What do you want to achieve next year if voted in?
I want to try and get our school more involved. By this I want to try to get more people to go support all our teams. Not just our major sports teams but all our other teams like band, choir, etc. Everyone works so hard and I think we all deserve recognition for that. We should go out and show our support for our peers.
