A local student will serve as one of the Algoma District School Board's student trustees next school year.
The board says Teagan Britten - a Grade 11 student at Michipicoten High School - is one of three student trustees appointed for the 2022-2023 school year, noting she's taken on a leadership role at the school over the past two years, as a "pivotal" member of its student senate and a key coordinator of the senate-led Mental Health Week, and she's been involved in extra curriculars in her home community of White River as a figure skater, and has volunteered in Wawa and White River while holding two part-time jobs and "maintaining a strong academic standing".
It adds she'd like to focus efforts on helping address student stress levels, and "hopes to use her voice to advocate for additional course options" at the school.
Also appointed as student trustees are Ava Engel of Korah Collegiate and Vocational School in Sault Ste. Marie and Neveah Pine of White Pines Collegiate and Vocational School in the Sault - Pine's the next Indigenous Student Trustee and Chair of the board's Northern Indigenous Youth Council.