A group of Sancta Maria College students attended the Howick Youth Summit where we were able to present different ideas for the Auckland Council.
The Howick Youth Summit is an annual conference connecting all the secondary schools in the eastern area (Howick region). This year’s theme was “How can we make Howick the World’s Most Liveable City at a Local Level?” There were 10 representatives from each of the 9 schools in the area ranging from Year 11-13.
We started the day by splitting into groups of ten, which had to contain people from the different schools, and started to talk about what changes we could implement to make Howick a better place.
After morning tea, each individual had to come up with an action in order to make Howick the most liveable city, and we had to ask for another’s opinion by giving each idea a score out of five. In the end, the top eight ideas were selected and each student had to choose an idea to plan for and to later present in front of some members of the Howick and Auckland Councils.
We were also fortunate enough to have Michael Goudie and Ben Dowdle to speak to the whole group of students during the event.
In the end, everyone learned something new, in terms of politics, and made a lot of new friends. We thank Cuan Pillay and Anna George for organising this event.
Meggue Cruz
