ASNE’s Leadership Team Braves the Snow!

On Tuesday, February 16th, while most Boston Public School students were spending their February vacation inside, admiring the snow falling on the city from the comfort of their homes, America SCORES New England’s Leadership Team was ice skating at Jamaica Plain’s Kelly Rink, intent on being active despite the lousy weather. With Lady Gaga and Shakira setting the mood, the Leadership Team—composed of ASNE middle school students who best embody SCORES’ values of teamwork, leadership and commitment— twirled, glided and slid their way across the snow-covered ice. Ice skating was just one of many of the Leadership Team’s February vacation events, which will culminate on Friday, February 19th with their student-organized Walk for Haiti at the Curtis Community Center in Jamaica Plain. 

On the T-ride back home, the geographic diversity of the Leadership Team became clear, as these students from varying city neighborhoods set home on the red, orange, blue and green lines. Although the main purpose of ASNE’s Leadership Team is to cultivate leadership abilities in the middle school youth that ASNE serves, the Leadership Team also functions as a means for these students to meet and forge relationships with kids across the city, an opportunity which many Boston youth do not receive until high school, if at all.