By Jolene Farley
Hills-Beaver Creek seventh-grader Aleesa Arends, daughter of Don and Michele Arends, Hills, has been accepted into the People to People World Leadership forum.
Arends will join a select group of students in Washington, D.C., from March 31 through April 6 to earn school credit while exploring some of the nation’s most prominent monuments and institutions.
The students will delve into American leadership during times of national challenge and prosperity.
Delegates will participate in small-group discussions and exercises to determine how successful leaders develop strategies, make decisions, build consensus and foster change.
Arends was nominated for the program based on outstanding scholastic merit, civic involvement and leadership potential.
People to People Ambassador Programs, founded in 1956 by Dwight D. Eisenhower, are intended to foster world citizenship.
