{"id":8562,"date":"2022-08-25T11:43:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T16:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/?p=8562"},"modified":"2022-08-25T11:43:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T16:43:42","slug":"mphs-student-chosen-as-hoby-youth-leadership-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/mphs-student-chosen-as-hoby-youth-leadership-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"MPHS Student Chosen as HOBY Youth Leadership Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Mount Pleasant High School junior, Makayla Spigner, was chosen as the 2021-2022 school ambassador for the Hugh O&#8217;Brian Youth Leadership Seminar (HOBY). She participated in a leadership seminar this summer at the University of Texas at Arlington.<\/h3>\n<h3>As many as 300 \u201cambassadors\u201d from high schools across the state and country gather at their local HOBY State Leadership Seminar between April and June to experience life on a university campus, interact with local community leaders, explore and exercise leadership on personal and group levels, conduct a community service project to put leadership-for-service skills into action, and open opportunities for internships, mentorship programs, and other HOBY Ambassadors Connect benefits.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThrough my HOBY experience, I learned that change can be as little as picking up a piece of litter off the floor to as big as leading communities in helping others,\u201d said Spigner. \u201cIt does not matter how big or small change is, for doing something for the community at all is enough. I learned that everyone can be the change their community needs!\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>Spigner continued, \u201cHOBY was a really fun experience for me. I don\u2019t normally enjoy getting out of my comfort zone, so being put in a situation where I\u2019d have to make friends, converse, and problem solve as a team, really helped me have a voice. At the end of the seminar, it had felt like I\u2019d known the friends I made there for months. I still talk to them today!\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>Spigner is a Mount Pleasant High School Tiger Doll and a member of the MPHS UIL Academic Team. She is the daughter of Michael and Dominique Spigner.<\/h3>\n<h3>Photo: Makayla Spigner, the 2021-2022 HOBY Youth Leadership Ambassador for Mount Pleasant High School<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Pleasant High School junior, Makayla Spigner, was chosen as the 2021-2022 school ambassador for the Hugh O&#8217;Brian Youth Leadership Seminar (HOBY). She participated in a leadership seminar this summer at the University of Texas at Arlington. As many as 300 \u201cambassadors\u201d from high schools across the state and country gather at their local HOBY [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}