A group of 26 ASU students taught homeless children the importance of leadership on Friday.
ASU's Leadership Scholarship Program, a group of students who were given scholarships based on their leadership qualities in high school, co-sponsored "STUCK on You! 2005" with more than 50 students from the Thomas J. Pappas School.
STUCK is an acronym for Strength, Trust, Unity, Community and Knowledge.
"The point of the event is to promote the importance of community, teamwork and education through activities such as art masterpiece, life skills seminars and team-building challenges," said business freshman Alex Hopson, one of the group leaders.
The children were divided into five groups that facilitated activities, including theater games to help build confidence, making boxes with mirrors inside to teach self-respect and making bracelets at the end of the event as a memento.
Hopson said the leaders wore bracelets throughout the event and helped the children make bracelets for themselves to signify that they were leaders, too.
Ashley Scheffer, a pre-med and political science freshman, was one of the students who led a life skills seminar.
"We just wanted them to know they could get through junior high, they could get through high school and they could achieve whatever they wanted," Scheffer said.
"A lot of them have really impressive goals -- they said they wanted to be lawyers and astronauts and teachers. It was really exciting," she said. "You get a really good feeling knowing that you can help kids achieve things 'cause we were all there once."
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