 TASC Senior Lone Star Award
"Learning and leadership are indispensable to each other. If we stop learning today, we will stop leading tomorrow."
-John F. Kennedy
TASC Lone Star State Student Leaders is the newest program sponsored by the Texas Association of Student Councils. It was created to motivate and challenge student leaders to extend their leadership skills and activities and to confer Texas recognition upon those students who demonstrate superior student council leadership skills and knowledge based on TASC criteria and evaluation procedures. The TASC Lone Star Student Leader designation will be bestowed upon any student that has shown evidence of being a knowledgeable and effective leader and has met the program criteria upon high school graduation.
To become a TASC Lone Star Student Leader, students must be members of their student councils in TASC member schools and graduating the school year they submit their applications. The standards for the Lone Star Student Leader program reflect the core purposes and mission of student councils. Additionally, the evaluation procedure has been designed so that the bulk of the process takes place at the school level with the results being forwarded to TASC for the final assessment. This facilitates a process that will help students become more proficient in self-assessment practices and better able to organize and build a record of evidence focused on their student council and related leadership activities.
CRITERIA AND RULES FOR APPLICANT
Student(s) submitting applications must meet the following criteria to be considered:
Eligibility
- Students who apply to become TASC Lone Star Student Leaders must be in schools that have current TASC membership.
- Student must have participated at least two years in their high school student council.
- Student must complete 20 hours of documented community service.
- Student must have led at least one workshop/discussion group at district, state, or national conference.
- Student must maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.0 during their high school career.
- Student must maintain an attendance rate of 85 percent not including student activities.
- Student must have no major disciplinary records or infractions as determined by your school district.
- Student must have attended at least one of the following: District Convention, TASC State Convention, or TASC Advanced Leadership Workshop.
- Student must have attended the TASC Summer Leadership Workshop during grades 9-12 at least once.
- Winners will be recognized at the TASC Annual Conference as well as online.
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