Leadership Texarkana Youth Program
Leadership Texarkana Today's Youth, Tommorrow's Leaders Program is underway.The program is underway this week and its primary goal is educating and developing individual leaders throughout the community. This program provides an in-depth leadership curriculum for a limited number of selected youth from area high schools at no charge to the students or schools.
Students in grades 10 and 11 are invited to apply each spring in applications made available through school counselors. The purpose of the program is to cultivate, connect and engage high school aged leaders from throughout the community in working together for community excellence, pride and progress.
Students in this years program include:
Arkansas High
Hayden Ellis
Kaellan Floyd
Ashley Marx
Phoebe Randle
Aleecia Tyous
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Liberty-Eylau
Tanner Bell
Keandra Carrol
Douglas Goodnight
Venitia Kennedy
Keyundra Anders
Camren Woods
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Pleasant Grove
Natalie Irwin
Lakyn Jean
Tyler Goldsmith
Elizabeth Stark
Matt Day
Ashlyn Ferguson
Kendall Lindsey
Megan McCorkle
Erika Rodriguez
Jorge Rodriguez
Renee' Walker
Logan Young
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Texas High
Carlie Clem
Lindsey Gore
Marissa Johnston
Raven Lewis
Alexander Prather
Makenzie Sangalli
Jacob Hill
The students are meeting at Texas A&M University-Texarkana and with city government and chamber of commerce leaders and touring police departments, Bi-State Justice Building and hospitals.
The group will have a wrap up session at Amigo Juans on Friday. The Program Leaders are Debby Sutton and Tiffany Beck.