12/18/2023
CongratulationsEli!
"To me, leadership means using your strengths to guide others. Academically, I've been on the honor roll/principal's list for all of last year. Instead of gatekeeping my knowledge, I share my intelligence with others. For example, I encourage and push others to think of innovative ideas, as I do, which benefits academic performance and helps me become the image of the leader I strive to be.
Socially, I support and lead the youth in my community by being a voice and helping them with the same problems that I used to have socially. I employ the same skills and leadership attributes in my Boy Scout troop. For example, if one of the youths is communicating with his head down, I tell him to raise his head and always look at someone you're talking to in the eye.
I have been directly and indirectly teaching the youth what leadership is all about to me. With my friends, I'm a leader by bringing athleticism, academics, and a balance of that to the friendship. Evidence of this is encouraging friends and schoolmates to attend teacher office hours for extra help and that it shouldn't be embarrassing. Athletically, I have incorporated leadership skills by encouraging everyone to be active in some way. As a result, some go to the gym, some go to martial arts, and some play sports." - Eli Williams