D300 To Send Three Students To National Conference

District 300 and the Friends of D300 Foundation for Academic Excellence showed off a little at Algonquin's Barley House Tuesday celebrating sending students from each of the district's high schools to the National Young Leader's Conference in D.C. in a couple of weeks.

"This is the first time we've sent three students (to such a conference) since the district was formed in 1949," said Superintendent Ken Arndt.

Jim Pratt, Chairman of the Foundation Student Leadership Committee said it was an uphill fight.  Even after raising enough money for the conference itself, airfare only came through thanks to the area Rhodes Foundation, he said, and lunch money came out of members own wallets when they realized they'd forgotten about it.

In the pic:  D300 Foundation's Jim Pratt congratulates Jacobs' Stephen Lenzini and Dundee-Crown's Kwamayne King on being chosen for a national leadership conference while Superintedant Ken Arndt adds his kudos.  Hampshire's Christopher Egger is going, too, but was ill Tuesday.