National+Young+Leader's+Day

[|Halogen Foundation]

National Young Leaders Day is about plugging into your potential, listening to people talking about what they have achieved and you as a Young Leader can begin to achieve. They tell you a lot of inspiring experiences. This year is the Halogen Foundation’s 10th year of the Young Leaders Day. The talkers were Nick Tuitasi, Melissa Clark Reynolds, Dayna Vawdrey, Pero Cameron and Rob Harley. YLD is held all over NZ and parts of Australia and there is one in Singapore. The 'Black Hat's or school leaders from our school spent the day in Wellington listening to these speakers. The Saint James Theatre.

Nick Tuitasi Nick Tuitasi is and inspirational speaker and former police constable. He gave great advice and talked about how COOL it is to have the reputation of a bad back stabber, because when someone says something negative about someone else you reply with a positive, that way they can’t say you back stabbed about them. He also had this really good quote that will stick to everyone at the St James Theater that day:

//Be Careful: about thoughts because your thoughts turn into words. Be Careful: about words because your words turn into actions. Be Careful: about actions because your actions turn into habit. Be Careful: about habits because your habits turn into character. Be Careful: about character because your character decides your destiny. //

Melissa Clark Reynolds Melissa Clark Reynolds finished school at 10 years old and went to Uni at 15. She is now a computer game maker. She made Minimonos.com which personally is a great and fun game.

Dayna Vawdrey Dayna Vawdrey was very poor and lived in car when she was younger, but she didn’t let that stop her. She is now a T.V presenter on Studio 2 live. She also is trying to save the world but doing world vision every year. She has seen where the money goes and is very inspirational.

Pero Cameron Pero Cameron is a basket ball player. He has out played a lot of famous people in the NBA. He is a very inspiring person.

Rob Harley Rob Harley is a journalist, so he pretty much gets payed for being noisy. He showed us but that we can work our way around things without giving up :)

Over all It was a great day. I enjoyed every bit of it, even how I had to get up at 6.30 so I could get to school at 7. Please watch our 'movie'.... media type="custom" key="6455643"

//By Kiri//