Mr. James Robertson, Chick-Fil-A Restaurant Marketing Director met with Student Council on Sept. 25 to discuss and showcase Chick-Fil-A’s Leader Academy Program. The Chick-Fil-A leadership program is comprised of monthly Leader Labs, where students learn valuable leadership skills while contributing to a community project. The projects the students organize and run are chosen specifically by the students.

“Most programs, they teach you — they feed you information. With Chick-Fil-A’s Leadership program, we teach you to lead. You actually apply what you’ve learned,” Mr. Robertson said. “It’s a well-structured, well thought-out program.”

Mr. Robertson presented a video to Student Council showing a student who had organized a carnival for disabled students at his school.

“It’s a good program that would help guide students to do things in their community they normally wouldn’t do,” Student Council President Hyjee Bae ‘16 said. “I’m really excited to get this program going.”

The Student Council members are excited and optimistic on how they can contribute to the community and what can be accomplished through the leadership program.

“Now we’re reaching out to students that normally wouldn’t be planning service projects and we’re giving them the opportunity to plan service projects,” Executive Vice President Eric Chen ‘16 said.

Westwood is one of 300 schools nationwide that has been selected for this program More information about the program can be found on the Chick-Fil-A website at chickfilaleaderacademy.com. Students can sign up for the program through an email they received in their student gmail account. The deadline for all applications is Oct. 10 and only 15 slots are available, so sign up now!

“We’ve received a lot of applications for that [leadership program], so we’re pretty excited about that,” Chen said.