The Student Senate at Creek is planning on helping students with financial issues to fund costs for activities they may be participating in.
The senate is currently working towards creating a scholarship fund to help support financially disadvantaged students who want to attend extracurriculars they may not be able to pay for. Junior Treasurer Dylan Pollak, says that while the plan isn’t fully developed yet, the kids that could be potential applicants will be students who have already qualified for free lunch at school.
Extracurriculars help to get students more involved at school, as well as build bridges with teachers and other kids. “Connection is important for kids, it’s important that they come to school and feel a part of the community,” Activities Director and Student Senate Advisor Kelly Devitt-Prevost said. Prevost describes that the goal for this scholarship is to try and support kids that want to get involved in activities.
While the funding can go towards athletics, the Senate is trying to put the focus towards non-athletic activities. “Take for example marching band, maybe you need money for a field trip, uniform, some cost associated with the activity,” Pollak said. “That is what the scholarship will be there to provide for.” Marching Band’s field trip to Orlando in Nov. costs students upwards of $1,800.
The funding for this project is coming from senate fundraisers that aren’t class specific, such as the senate’s recent haunted house. As of now, the amount of money that has been raised is around $5,000 because it is a new project, but Prevost hopes that in the future other clubs will provide money to put towards the scholarship as well.
Since the plan isn’t final yet, there have been no applicants. An outline of the scholarship application process would be something like teachers potentially providing the application and students would be able to apply on a form online which could be found under the activities tab on the CCHS website. According to Prevost, if club sponsors have a kid they know has financial issues the adult leader could provide the scholarship to them.
The time until a solid plan is developed is currently looking at around just after this first quarter. “We can’t guarantee that we are going to be able to fully fund everything, but we are going to do the best we can to support as many kids as we can,” Prevost said.
