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I wish I had done Model UN as a student. I wouldn't have had time, though, and I didn't even know it existed until college.
We had a student council at my junior high which didn't have much purpose other than pertaining to sports and cheerleading events (as far as I remember), but I was elected along with a few other friends to be part of the environmental council. Anyway, the most interesting thing of it is that we took a worthless feel-good portion of the student council and turned it into something useful by creating school-wide recycling programs and contests as well as funding our organization - and eventually the entire student council (for whatever they used the money for) - through our Friday candy sales. From what I remember, we pretty much skipped all the actual student council meetings because we were doing more on our own anyway. It was a good and fun experience and I guess you could say we learned some basic organizational and entrepreneurial skills.
In HS, I was elected to be secretary of my school's showchoir (it was not anything like Glee, thank you very much). Specific to that role, the main thing I remember dealing with was our weekly schedule and things like that. The showchoir had 4 officers though (Pres, VP, Sec, Tres) and we worked as a team to plan many of our activities, such as our summer retreat, end of year parties, fundraisers, etc. I suppose I learned about planning and working as a team of executives from that experience.
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