Student Senate Holds Annual Easter Egg Hunt

Student Senate is holding their annual Easter Egg hunt this year on Saturday, March 24th, from 9:00am-11:00am in the South Campus cafeteria.

Egg hunt number one will begin at 9:30am, and egg hunt number two will start at 10:30am. Included in this event, along with egg hunts, are crafts and egg dying.

According to Maggie Siepmann, member of the Student Senate, this event is open to the community, and especially for “the little kids in the area.”

Staff advisor for Student Senate, and AHS Psychologist Bridget Brickman, says that her favorite part about Student Senate is communicating with the students, “hearing their opinions, what they want to change, and what they want to stay the same.”

Siepmann’s favorite part about this event is that “we can reach out to the whole community to put on a fun event.”

She also enjoys working with the other Student Senate members who help with the event and “seeing all the work we put into come together to a fun activity.”

Even though she has only been staff advisor for this past year, her favorite outreach has been the Giving Tree, located in the South Campus library and North campus main entrance, because she saw the impact it had on the community.

Other events put on by Student Senate include the Giving Tree, Homecoming, Twirp, and other food drives.

According to AHS math teacher and former staff advisor, the Easter egg hunt has gone on since 2011, when she began to get involved with Student Senate.

“With planning an big event, there are struggles with getting everything ready in time,” says Brinckman about the egg hunt, “it’s very hard to make sure that everything is ready on time in order for the event to happen.”

Siepmann said that in the past, there have been an average of 50 kids at the Easter egg hunt.

Both Siepmann and Brinckman agree that with all the hard work put into the event the outcome, seeing how it impacts the community, is so worth all the work inthe end.