Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Williams Selected To Attend Young Leaders Conference

Amie Williams, a junior at Nevada High School, was selected to attend the National Young Leaders Conference from February 6 to 11 in Washington, D.C. The conference is a unique leadership development program for high school students who have demonstrated leadership potential and scholastic merit. Williams will be among 350 outstanding national scholars attending the conference from across America.

The theme of the National Young Leaders Conference was `The Leaders of Tomorrow Meeting the Leaders of Today.' Throughout the six-day confeence, Williams interacted with key leaders and newsmakers from the three branches of government, the media and the diplomatic corps.

Williams is a member and president of Student Council, junior class president, FBLA second vice president, Mock Trial, BETA, Gifted & Talented, Quiz Bowl, publications, French Club vice president, prom committee, journalism, drug team, and Who's Who Among American High School Students.

Her awards include honor roll, the keyboarding award, the physical science award, the Presidential Academic Fitness Award, the accounting award, the world history award and editor's choice award for her poem, Friendship, which was published in the book `Walk Through Paradise'.

Williams was being sponsored by her parents Dwight and Phyllis Williams and her grandparents, John L. and Virigina Williams and Devere and Nadra Jessup.