2005/04/20 Council Agenda Packet

• Page 2 Her senior project was presented on the topic of"Launching a Key Club." Reda's accomplishments with this project led her to be selected by her senior seminar teacher and school advisor to present her project to a group of 60 community members. Her senior project focus was to promote and encourage personal enrichment by learning how to service the community. Reda has also been involved with helping others in the community including volunteering time at the Everett Gospel Mission serving meals, organizing a Christmas food drive at Cascade High School, organizing a food drive for Housing Hope and organizing a fundraiser for tsunami disaster relief. Reda's biggest challenge has been finding her identify. Because of her passion to help others, Reda stepped down from cheerleading to spend more time developing the Key Club chapter. Her work organizing students and encouraging them to service the community has been very rewarding for her. Reda was nominated for this award by her sister, Christina Aho. Reda's ability to recognize needs other than her own and find the time to fulfill some of those goals was why the committee selected Reda to receive the Mayor's Youth Achievement Award. Martha Floyd: This 16-year-old junior attends Everett Community College through the Running Start Program at Everett High School. She has maintained a 4.0 grade point average for the past three years. Over the past few years, she has also given hundreds of hours to the community through volunteerism. As a two-year member of the Everett Public Library Teen Advisory Board, she helps plan events for teens and reaches out to younger children through reading books and performing puppet shows. She is also active in the 4-H technology program. She has served as a Snohomish County Technology Team member for two years and helped with the State Tech Conference, helped build a computer lab for Mason County and planned and taught GPS using a scavenger hunt format. She also worked for three weeks at a summer camp where she taught GPS, Adobe Photoshop, HTML, CSS, Dream Weaver and Flash technology to elementary, middle-schoolers and children with special needs. She is also on the Youth Planning Board for the 2005 camps. Since March 2004, she has been the Washington State Representative to the National 4-H Youth Directions Council teaching youth how to make successful partnerships with adults to promote the voice of youth within 4-H. Through 4-H leadership, she has even met with Senators and Representatives such as Patty Murray and Rick Larsen. She is also involved in church and has assisted in the development and maintenance of the website there. She is a brown belt in Tae Kwon Do and works as a cashier at a local business. Martha was nominated for this award by her mother, Annette Floyd. As you can see, Martha brings honor to her self and her family, and she is very deserving of the Mayor's Youth Achievement Award. Sharlena Boyett: Sharlena is a home school student who has been involved in the community in a variety of ways. In the four years she has been involved in the Central Snohomish County Youth Council, Shar has served as a volunteer and peer educator.