Starting next year, Hays High School’s Leadership Team will have a new name and new responsibilities. The organization will be called the Hays High Student Ambassadors Program and will be part of Student Council instead of being led by the counselors.

The program will still consist of juniors and seniors who were nominated by teachers and who filled out applications and were accepted. There will be 65 students in the program in total, and two will be “Head Ambassadors.”

The students involved will be keeping some of the same responsibilities from prior years, but there will be more involvement with new students and incoming freshmen. Student ambassadors will still give tours to incoming freshmen during orientation in August and will show new students to their classes if they arrive during the year.

However, there are plans to implement a “Lunch Buddy” system, in which ambassadors will sit with any new students during their first week to help them adjust to the new environment. There will also be more team-building activities for the organization members throughout the school year and meetings about upcoming events.

“I think it’s going to be a good change and a wonderful addition to the Student Council umbrella,” StuCo advisor Luke Lundmark said. “I think that having two large student leadership programs within the StuCo bubble will help align the mission and vision of both.”

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