Saginaw Intermediate School District (ISD), in collaboration with the Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce, Dale Carnegie Training, and Partnershift, is pleased to announce the selection of the seventh cohort of Saginaw County Youth Ambassadors.
This distinguished group of incoming high school sophomores throughout Saginaw County has earned the opportunity to learn and develop sought-after leadership skills through a unique, three-year, comprehensive program designed to prepare them for promoting community service.
As part of this program, each Youth Ambassador will participate in a four-day Dale Carnegie Teen Program. This program equips students with professional skills to lead within their community while catalyzing leadership development. Throughout the three-year cohort experience, Youth Ambassadors will engage in self-awareness workshops to identify their strengths and plan immersive experiences to contextualize Saginaw County’s richly diverse community. Through meaningful community involvement, these interactive experiences will help ensure that student Youth Ambassadors are well prepared to promote the benefits of living, working, and playing in Saginaw County to their peers, family, neighbors, and visitors.
The growth opportunities and skill development obtained by the Ambassadors during the program’s first two years will lead to an active leadership role in representing youth across Saginaw County during their senior year of high school. The program intends to usher in and train a new cohort of exceptional student leaders annually and perpetually invest in the next generation of community leaders.
The distinguished students selected to represent the Saginaw County Youth Ambassadors’ seventh cohort are as follows:
Rachel Duckworth, Birch Run High School
Aleiah Massey, Birch Run High School
D’Terreion Harris-Kincaid, Bridgeport High School
Kevin Schumpert, Bridgeport High School
Brandon Byrd, Carrollton High School
Sa’Nalia Valles, Carrollton High School
Lucy Maike, Chesaning High School
Layne Niewiadomski, Chesaning Union High School
Audrey Butzin, Frankenmuth High School
Durham Roberts, Frankenmuth High School
Leah Draheim, Freeland High School
Hannah Wells, Freeland High School
Kassidy Cavendish, Hemlock High School
Camden Peters, Hemlock High School
Morgan Michelson, Heritage High School
Easton Schaller, Heritage High School
Ariah Haswell, Merrill High School
Kaylee O’Dell, Merrill High School
Rishika Veera, Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy
Liam Vincent, Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy
McKenzie Whitson, Saginaw United High School
Shaniya Williams, Saginaw United High School
Ryder Keilitz, St. Charles High School
Emilee Rohwetter, St. Charles High School
Sophia Burns, Swan Valley High School
Norah Jennings, Swan Valley High School
For more information, please contact Saginaw ISD staff member Dennis Barlow at dbarlow@sisd.cc.
ABOUT SAGINAW INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT
Saginaw Intermediate School District (ISD) is an educational service agency that provides effective and innovative leadership, services, resources, and programs throughout Saginaw County. Saginaw ISD provides career and technical education, early childhood, finance, human resources, instruction, pupil accounting, special education, technology, and transportation services. In addition, Saginaw ISD operates multiple educational programs to meet the unique needs of students ages birth to 26 across Saginaw County, including: Hartley Outdoor Education Center, Head Start/Early Head Start and Great Start to Readiness Programs, Great Lakes Bay Early College, Saginaw County Juvenile Detention Center School, and Special Education Center Programs.
Saginaw ISD serves 12 local school districts, four public school academies, and 22 non-public schools, with a total enrollment of approximately 26,000 students. Public school districts supported include: Birch Run Area Schools, Bridgeport-Spaulding Community School District, Carrollton Public Schools, Chesaning Union Schools, Frankenmuth School District, Freeland Community School District, Hemlock Public School District, Merrill Community Schools, Saginaw Public School District, Saginaw Township Community Schools, St. Charles Community Schools, and Swan Valley School District.
MEDIA CONTACT
Coty Kuschinsky – Saginaw ISD Chief of Staff and Communications Director