David Calderon - Reporter
Photos courtesy Anna Claire Lane
Each year, several students are chosen to participate in the Dyer County Youth Leadership committee. Students must apply for these positions and show some kind of leadership potential in order to gain a spot on the coveted committee.
According to school counselor Anna Claire Lane, Dyer County Youth Leadership is a school program that helps Dyersburg High School, Dyer County High School, and Christ Classical Academy sophomores who have shown leadership skills to be more involved with “...civic, cultural, and economic development and philanthropic organizations and groups.”
This program teaches the students about many local issues, and how to be leaders by finding ways to be involved and possibly make a change to these issues. Students learn these skills through visiting local industry and other businesses in order to gain the knowledge of what is going on in the local community.
These field trips give the students a fun way to lear. They also make the students aware of different industries in the community, what goes on in those industries, and how everything works. The students recently spent the day in the community, where they toured ERMCO and NSK, two prominent local industries.
“We got to talk to the CEO of ERMCO and he talked to us about the history of ERMO’s production,” sophomore Preslee Quertermous said.These small insights about how a company works help the students get an inside perspective of how much a company can progress in a matter of years and what actually happens in our community.
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