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AIM Academy Demonstates Innovative Minds At Work
Academy’s Student Council leads the way with community involvement
By Kara Rankin and Kristin Paumier
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The purpose of AIM’s student council is to allow students to develop leadership by organizing and carrying out school activities and service projects. In addition to planning events that contribute to school spirit and community welfare, the student council is the voice of the student body. They help share student ideas, interests, and concerns with the schoolwide community. Being a member of AIM’s student council helps build character, leadership, decision-making, organization skills, and responsibility.
The AIM Student Council had their annual Sock-tember sock drive where our whole school came together to collect socks for our local homeless shelter, Refuge of Hope. This is the second year doing this project that is inspired by Kid President. This year they were able to collect 243 pairs of women’s, men’s, and children’s socks to donate to the shelter. This project has taught our students a sense of community and how one small gesture can help those in need.
Our 6th-grade student council took the lead on a Kindness Project for CommQuest Services. They created empowering Valentine’s cards and treats to be shared with community members who are separated from family members and going through the recovery process.
The student council also worked to spread some Valentine’s day cheer within the school by selling candy bars during February. Students helped spread the word with creative posters and they even practiced their public speaking skills with presentations during our lunch periods. We collected $200 which will be donated to Akron Children’s Hospital’s Amazon Wish list to buy toys, books, and basic necessities. Students learned how to budget money and had really great discussions on what they thought would make the biggest difference in the lives of the patients at the hospital. We would like to thank Miss Paumier and Mrs. Harrison for advising our Student Council at AIM.
AIM’s Student Council has performed a variety of community service projects this year, like the Socktember sock drive for Refuge of Home, and creating empowering Valentine’s for people who were facing addiction treatment with CommQuest Services.
