High School VSA Summit 2007 Winter

• February 3, 2007; 11:00AM to 1:00PM
• Lily Tran’s House, Milpitas, CA
• At least two delegates from your school if possible

• Lily Tran, Vice President, Milpitas High School VSA
• Kevin Tanaka, President, Cupertino High School VSA
• Josie Diep, Vice President, Wilcox High School VSA

• Milpitas High School VSA
  • Lily Tran
• Cupertino High School VSA
  • Kevin Tanaka
  • Michael Truong
  • Alex Truong
  • Minh Quach
  • Michael Phan
• Wilcox High School VSA
  • Josie Diep
  • Amanda Pham
• Fremont High School VSA
  • Que-Mai Le
  • Lucy Hua
• Mt. Pleasant High School CVC
  • Emila La
  • Kim Ngo
  • Ann Nguyen
• UVSA
  • Bao Ngo
  • Huy Duong
• Guests
  • Cherry Nguyen

• Cell phones are off
• Have at least one notetaker for the summit
• Side conversations are out
• Candy is okay; no crunchy chips since that makes noise

Who do you consider a role model, and what traits make them a good role model?

• A lot of students cited their parents!
• Open-minded, attentive listener
• Approachable; won’t be quick to criticize, which causes youths to feel bad for approaching that person
• Trusting, having faith, and believing in others and their capabilities
• Wise, has advice from relevant experiences that he/she can share with youth
• Motivating, encouraging
• Helps the youth to form independent opinion, instead of dictating what should or should not be done
• Withstand hardships; has the will to overcome obstacles
• Balanced life of work and play
• Knows how to split the work and delegate
• Organized and prepared; whenever the person enters a meeting, he/she knows exactly what’s going on
• Hard-working, productive and vision-oriented; always works towards a goal
• Patient, calming and confident
• Strong and independent

• Hard to schedule a meeting
  • Try using MeetingWizard to schedule meetings
  • Use a grid format similar to MeetingWizard to schedule events
  • Plan far, far ahead of time
• Lack of participation or motivation among members
  • Have social games like Got Rice (Say “I like people who…” and then everyone with matching trait has to switch chairs)
• Training next set of leaders to take over
  • Always try to recruit younger members
• Intimidating talking to leaders; sometimes cabinet are all friends, so they are cliquish and don’t try to reach out to members
  • Diversify the cabinet so that you have different groupies of friends
  • Leaders should reach out to members
• Lack of commitment; fellow officer doesn’t talk with you
  • Try to find someone else to talk with that officer
  • Do a private email or phone conversation
  • Make the club meaningful; make the officer feel her/his contributions are important
• Power-hungry leaders
  • Rest of the officers should “gang up” on the power-tripping leader and confront her/his behavior as unacceptable

• Trying to communicate with members
• Having memorable activities for the year; trying to do too many small events instead of focusing on fewer quality events
• Asian Time
• Stress
• Generation gap; elders doubt your actions

• White board to write discussion points so everyone can see what’s being said.
• Name Tags