Editor’s notes: This is the first of two stories featuring Reeltown students who attended the Alfa Youth Leadership Conference.
Reeltown students are learning how to make a difference.
Earlier this month, Reeltown students Colton Siggers, a 10th grade student, and Lane Chamness, a ninth grade student, attended the two-day Alfa Youth Leadership Conference.
This conference held by Alabama Farmers Federation aims to teach students leadership skills and build upon who they are as leaders in their own right. The conference involved team building activities and guest speakers — motivational speaker Rhett Laubach and Alfa Insurance Leadership Consultant Nicole Pinkham.
“I really love to participate in leadership things and the really fun thing about it was it happens at the Alabama 4-H center,” Siggers said. “And I’m an Alabama 4-H ambassador so I have been out there a good bit. I think it’s a great place and there’s a lot of fun things they do up there.”
Along with leadership, attendees also learn about agriculture advocacy. The students do a service project during the conference as well and this year’s was assembling Christmas toys for Children’s of Alabama patients.
“We have a responsibility to educate and help our young people grow,” Alfa ag leadership programs director McBrayer said in a press release. “We want to encourage our students to wake up every day and choose to be better. They are our future, and their success will affect us for years to come.”
After high school, Siggers aspires to be an engineer and hopes to complete two years at Southern Union State Community College before transferring to Auburn University.
