START Youth Leadership Conference
START 2010 Theme: Choose to Lead!
START 2010 information is now available.
What is START?
START is a two-day residential experience for ninth graders held on the Nichols College campus in Dudley, Mass.
How Does It Work?
Students attending the START program are nominated to attend by their high schools. Over 100 delegates from 86 New England high schools came to Nichols College for this year's event.
START Photos And Videos
Article:
What is the most important leadership trait of a U.S. President?
Submitted by START Chair, Susan K. Tellier, Nichols Vice President of Administration
START 2010 Information
What is START?
The Mission: To empower student involvement as a citizen of his/her school and community
The Annual START Conference is a two-day residential experience for ninth graders held on the Nichols College campus in Dudley, Mass. With a $25 registration fee, a student receives all meals, lodging and materials, including a leadership handbook. Exercises in identity building, team building, situational leadership, and goal setting are designed to help each participant meet the challenges of tomorrow.
The Conference goal is to develop a strong foundation for a new generation of young leaders by pairing the strengths of Nichols College, at the forefront of business leadership, with SLTP, an organization with proven experience motivating thousands of high school students in the last 18 years.
Would you like to know what to expect when attending START?
View the 2009 Schedule
- The Goal:
- Motivate citizenship
- Promote student leadership
- Teach student leadership skills
- Promote responsible, proactive action
- Build Community
Positive Outcomes
- Improve critical thinking skills.
By presenting multiple viewpoints on important issues, START encourages student leaders to evaluate all issues from a critical perspective. - Enhance leadership skills.
START's inquiry-based format, small group discussions on leadership roles and hands-on service learning experiences enable each delegate to better understand leadership and begin to identify his or her own particular leadership strengths. - Better understand the democratic process.
Discussions on democracy, free enterprise, volunteerism and community service will be facilitated. - Develop goal-setting skills.
All aspects of START are geared to encourage the delegates to see leadership as a life-goal worth pursuing.
START is an opportunity for
Nichols College students too
Nichols Students, (pictured left to right), Larissa L. O'Rourke, Daniel Tamayo and Alyssa M. Chase, volunteered to work at the START Conference.
Our students gave up a couple of weekends to be here but got the opportunity to learn new leadership and communication skills that will help them throughout their lives and careers.
Contact Sue Tellier if you would like to learn about volunteering.
START Youth Leadership Conference - 2009
Join us next year at START
START is a fun but intense learning experience. If you are in ninth grade in New England, talk to your guidance counselor about coming next year.
