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HEADLINE: Student Organizations

Elena Casillas, News reporter
March 30, 2025
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At Agua Fria highschool so many opportunities are available for both students and teachers. One opportunity is student competitions, which are offered to anyone in a CTE. Here are the differences and meanings of each of them:

Family, Career, Community Leaders of America

FCCLA helps students develop skills for life and careers, explore different career pathways, and understand the balance of career and family responsibilities. It does this through competitive events, leadership conferences, and chapter projects. The organization as a whole focuses on understanding the importance of personal, work, and societal issues.

Skills USA

Skills USA’s goal is to prepare students for careers in trade, technical, and skilled service occupations. To empower members of the future skilled workforce and the ultimate recognition of excellence in career and technical education. They do this through leadership conferences, competitive events, chapter activities, and online submissions.

Future Business Leaders of America

FBLA’s mission is to combine education and business in one by innovative leadership and career development programs. They aim to prepare students for the professionalism of the workforce. They do this through leadership conferences, competitive events, chapter activities, and online submissions. Distributive Education Clubs of America

DECA wants to prepare students to become emerging leaders and entrepreneurs in marketing, finance, hospitality, and management across America. Their focus is to help develop and expand students’ skill sets from various events of leadership conferences, competitive events, chapter activities, and online submissions.

Health Occupations Students of America

HOSA’s main goal is to prepare students for the healthcare field. Want to prepare these students by shaping their leadership skills, teaching about health professions, promoting physical, mental, and social well-being, and much more. They do this through leadership conferences, competitive events, chapter activities, and online submissions. 

 

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Elena Casillas
Elena Casillas, News reporter
Elena Casillas is a 16-year-old junior news reporter at Agua Fria. Elena enjoys informing people in all different ways such as journalism and ‘broadcasting’. Elena enjoys hanging out with friends, writing, and reading. She loves her two cats, Maurice and Nugget. She despises the Arizona summer heat. This is just a short introduction to Elena Casillas.  Not many people know what they’re going to do after High School but Elena has a plan she hopes to succeed in. Elena dreams of going into any variation of filming, or broadcasting. To achieve this dream she hopes to attend ASU Cronkite. She plans to leave her comfort zone and maybe become a news broadcaster for CNN, Fox News, and any similar news channel.  Getting to know Elena, I decided to ask how her high school experience has been for her so far. She explains high school for her has been ‘like a wave’ or in other words like a roller coaster. She says she’s been ‘going with the wave’ of things throughout high school. Between Freshman and Junior year, she says how there has been a big change in her mindset; way of thinking, and maturity. She has learned how to procrastinate less and become more social. Talk to people more and become more comfortable talking to them. In becoming more social she decided to join film which she said made her feel like she truly wanted to make some change. Throughout high school, her feelings have changed in seeing how different people can consider their feelings rather than yours.  On a more serious note, though 16 years may seem like a short amount of time it can still change your perspectives on many things. I asked Elena, ‘How has your perspective changed in life/ what has changed your perspective?”.  Elena said growing up she realized how fast something can change in life. We aren’t promised the same every day. She said her having family issues showed her this, how things can change so fast without you even seeing it. Her perspective also changed in paying more attention to how you view things and how certain things can affect you and your personal or school life. In school, she’s seen and got a deeper understanding of how ignorant and selfish people can be when it comes to your feelings, if it doesn’t have much to do with them they may not care as much.  Finally, I decided to ask her a fun question. “What is one thing people would be shocked to know about you?”. Elena said she is a big Marvel person. Every time she tells people they’re just a little bit shocked. Her favorite Marvel hero would have to be in between Iron Man and black widow. Elena has such a beautiful personality. If you want to get to know her, it is so worth it.
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