Rapid City high school students bring inspiration from Nation’s capital back home

RAPID CITY, S.D. — Change has a ripple impact– it may well begin small and ultimately influence numerous others.

After their journey to Washington, D.C., some native high school students are able to shake up the town’s youth council program.

Eight students traveled to the town for the National League of Cities assembly, the place that they had the prospect to take part in a collection of occasions.

Things kicked off with the chance to see political figures corresponding to President Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi give speeches in individual. President Biden even gave a particular message to all the students in attendance for the assembly.

Members sat in on a number of conferences about totally different topical points corresponding to homelessness and water infrastructure. When it was over, they had been able to bring their experiences back to Rapid City.

“They had been giving us concepts on how we might do this change and the way we might make an impact in our neighborhood, and it was actually inspiring to see them up there,” Dhruv Goyal, a Junior from St. Thomas More mentioned. “As one in every of my councilmates mentioned, these individuals up there have been no totally different than us. They had been regular human beings who simply had a sure drive, a sure ardour that they exhibited by way of their actions, which I discovered actually inspiring in that second.”

Councilman Ritchie Nordstrom was additionally in Washington for the occasion, excited to see their curiosity in native politics.

“The saying that I’ve is ‘my clone stop working for me as a result of I used to be working him too arduous.’ So having any person to associate with, sharing these experiences with could be an exquisite alternative,” Ward 2 Alderman, Ritchie Nordstrom mentioned. “It actually appears like they’re excited about native authorities to begin with. I feel that might be an important alternative to provide them that publicity.”