Pinole City Council Meeting

Today was the Pinole City Council meeting. All of the Ivy League Connection scholarship winners who live or go to school in Pinole, CA USA were to attend the meeting and represent the Ivy League Connection to our community.

I arrived to the meeting 15 minutes early and I sat with the other students. At 6:00 PM Don gathered us around and briefed us on what would be happening tonight. He told us that we were to go up to the podium in each of our cohorts and introduce ourselves. Then the designated speaker would make a brief speech about the Ivy League Connection; similar to the format at the School Board meeting. Afterwards all of the students and Council Members were to take a picture together.

After Don finished talking to us, all of the students began to mingle and talk to pass the time away. The whole time we were waiting for the meeting to start, I talked to Kimberly de Dios, who is attending Vanderbilt University this summer for the Med School 101 program. She and I had attended the same schools up until high school, so we caught up on what had been going on with us since then. 

At 7 PM, the meeting started. Don went up to the podium to speak first, and after that, the night went on as planned. The Council members spoke and acknowledged our accomplishments, and then we took the group photo. Everyone did very well!