BAIS Talent Show

This might be my favorite night of the year.

All year I have been working with Student Council as their staff advisor. To be honest it was a new role for me that I found quite challenging. Questions like "how do you challenge students to step up as leaders?" and "how do you develop student leaders with vision and character?" plagued me all year. The group learned a lot, but I think I learned more from working with them.

All year we worked on various projects and put on different events. Our last big project for the year was putting on a talent show to help raise money to put air conditioning in our Multi-Purpose room. As the event drew near I was nervous to see if we were going to be able to pull it off. There were lots of details to sort through and a lack of communication amongst the students at times. However, on the night of it all came together and was fabulous. I loved watching my StuCo kids unite together and work as a team. Each person had a different role in making it all happen- someone ran the lights, another the sound board, another was our emcee; a couple people were in charge of the curtain, a couple people sold tickets, others were stage hands, and someone had the special job of making sure each act was lined up and on stage when they were supposed to be. It took everyone coming together to make it happen and they did a great job!

Here are a few pictures to show some highlights, although it cannot nearly compare to being there in person, hearing the music, and appreciating the various talents at our school.

Bora, one of the 10th grade class reps, helps emcee along with Laura who works in the office.
They were hillarious and made frequent references to how hot it was so people would be
inclined to give money to the AC.

This precious Preschooler opened the show doing hoola-hoop.
We had a wide variety of acts as this picture displays.

We also had staff participate. Here Laura, Molly, and Adam sing "Man of Constant Sorrows,"
with costumes and dance moves to go along.

We were surprised by performances from students who displayed hidden talents.

The Spanish 2 class presented a skit in Spanish.

The Mandarin 2 class followed suit and performed a song in Mandarin.

We had some solo performances from high school students.

As well as group performances from different high school bands.

Our High School principle even joined in and performed a song.

To close the show a group of high schoolers and a couple staff members danced to "Thriller."

They had secretly been practicing and wowed the crowd with their performance.

Here they are again, still in character.

A group of high school girls danced to a famous Korean song.
While they danced a large part of the audience sang along.
Here's the group after the show.

Lastly, this is a shot of me with the group that made the whole event happen-
student council. They rock!