The following Melrose Veterans Memorial Middle School students will be attending the Middlesex Middle School Peer Leadership Conference for Students on Friday, January 20, 2011 at Nashoba Valley Technical High School in Westford from 8:30 a.m. – 1:45 p.m.: Hassan P., 6A; Virginia G., 6B; Jack S., 6C; Tess C., 7A; Olivia R., 7C; Gerard F., 7A; Asha W., 8B; Maya T., 8B; and Ian D., 8B.  The Youth Everywhere Abstaining from Drugs (YOU LEAD) program is designed to empower middle school student leaders to reinforce healthy decisions making skills.  The objective of this conference is to support and empower drug-free youth; a population that unfortunately has often been ignored by a culture that reflects use of alcohol and other drugs by adolescents as the norm.  Participants are middle school students who are committed to a lifestyle free of alcohol and drug use, included but not limited to existing youth groups such as SADD, Peer Leadership, and student-athletes.  Those attending the conference will participate in leadership activities, learn problem-solving techniques, develop effective strategies and action plans for their schools, and network and share information and successful practices from their schools with other schools.  This program is conducted in partnership with the MIAA and District Attorney – Gerard T. Leone, Jr.  For more information contact MVMMS Guidance Counselor Molly Maggee at mmagee@melrose.mec.edu. 

             Posted by Principal Brow - 12/28/2011