Students Empowerment

Empower youths through the spreading of awareness, amplify the voices and struggles of students, in efforts to create a supportive community.

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Hey everyone! We are a student-based initiative working to advocate and empower youths. We are ecstatic to build a platform to stand in solidarity with our peers during these dire times. Please join us on our journey as we build a supportive community for youths to strive.

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Planning has begun! Some very new faces and very familiar faces, but stay tuned to see what we’re up to this year!

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The team voted

Most likely to
Richard - be late to meetings
Tiffany T - get away with anything
Kenny- win a Grammy/Tony/Oscar
Truc - find a cure for cancer
Daniel - fight aliens
Tiffany N - take over the world

Senior of the Year - Truc Dao
Member of the Year - Andrew Le

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StuEm 2022 Summer Summit in films!

2021-22 has been quite the year for us! While we wish our seniors farewell and send them our well wishes for their next journeys, we cant wait to see what they accomplished next.

Its been an absolute blast! See you for another action year!

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Southeast’s Andrew Le – Athlete Spotlight – Presented By @SafeStreets316

https://t.co/k6SHu6PEEo #kspreps

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Grad highlights!

Last but definitely not least is our 2021-22 Fundraising Coordinator Tiffany Nguyen. Tiffany graduated from Northeast High as her class’ Valedictorian and KWCH’s Top of The Class recipient. She is also a Lil Egie and McDonald Scholar from WSU LAS.

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Grad highlights!

Today we highlight our 2020-22 Research Director, Richard Leng. Richard has been our Research Director since we first started, and has recently graduated from South High. Richard will be attending KU this fall as a Chancellor’s scholar.

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Grad highlights!
Daniel Gonzalez is one of our 2020-22 researcher. Graduating from South High, Daniel will be attending WSU Tech. He is also a WSU Tech Signing Day scholar!

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Grad highlights!

Up in the spotlight today is our 2020-22 team Secretary, Tiffany Tran. Graduating from South High, Tiffany will be attending Friends University with a STEM Promise Scholarship.

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Grad highlights!
Today we are highlighting our 2021-22 Team Coordinator, Kenny Phan, a student at Southeast Highschool.
Kenny is also a scholar of The String Division of the Kansas Music Educator Association and the WSU School of Music!

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Grad highlights!

Starting off this week is our 2020-22 Director, Truc! Graduating as Salutatorian of her class at South High, Truc is a United Way’s Aaron Joel Smith Memorial Youth Volunteer, Wichita Community Foundation’s Optimist Memorial, and Immigration Heritage Scholar!

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Our recruitment application has official opened! We hope to have you joined us!! https://t.co/9uXgrvcpXx

Application is open to all high-school and middle-school students within the metropolitan area!

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As part of YLINK’s (Youth Leaders in Kansas), our ‘22 Direct & V-Direct attended the YLINK Summer Leadership Conference where they presented StuEm’s year in full & share about the City of Wichita. They were than surprised with an Outstanding Youth Leader Award! @MirrorIncKansas

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Our recruitment application has official opened! We hope to have you joined us!! https://t.co/9uXgrvcpXx

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Thank you for coming and sharing your passion and love with us! The Wichita community is beyond grateful your work and the resources you are bringing! To many more community fridges 🖤

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Thank you for coming and listening to us advocate for issues we believe in! Thank you for allowing us to break barriers with your leadership!

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Thanks for letting me listen in on the discussion!

Our young folks are doing some amazing work & showing leadership. Thanks to the teachers and mentors who invest in the next generation. #WeAreWichita

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before we sign off tonight, remember “strive to serve, strive to change”
- love the StuEm team

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Also a little kudos to some our very own starfish: @Le_Andrew_, Daniel Gonzalez, @tructzy ,Tiffany Nguyen, Tiffany Tran, Yen Lam, Richard Leng, and @Kenny_win1 for lettering in student leadership for @WichitaUSD259 today! #WPSProud

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And here’s to the team. Last year we were a small group of students, but this year, we are Youth Leaders in Kansas (YLINK). And while our team now includes Southeast and Northeast, next year we might spread further in the metropolitan area…

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Many nods, laughters and questions. This crowd of audience definitely got the panelists in hot seats. So many questions asked, and so many answers given. Change starts today, so join us and the young people in this community to advocate and work for that change! #WPSProud

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Our amazing panelists! Thank you to these amazing individuals for speaking to us about diversity and inclusion, food insecurity, mental health and the importance of civics engagement. The stories shared, advice given to the youth, we can’t thanks these phenomenal souls enough.