Student to grow leadership traits at forum

WASILLA — Samantha Stewart, a student at Teeland Middle School, has been accepted into the People to People World Leadership Forum.

She joins other students in Washington, D.C., this week to study leadership and explore some of the United States’ prominent monuments and institutions. Her visit began Monday and will continue through Saturday.

As part of the forum, Stewart will visit Capitol Hill, the Smithsonian, Gettysburg and the National Museum of American History as part of an examination of the characteristics of American leadership during times of national change and prosperity. She will also participate in small group discussions and exercises to experience how successful leaders develop strategies, make decisions, build consensus and help bring about change.

She was accepted based on her outstanding scholastic merit, civic involvement and leadership potential.

Stewart is the daughter of MSgt. Robert A. Steward, who is deployed to Baghdad, Iraq) and TSgt. Pollyanna M. Stewart of Wasilla. Both are stationed at Elmendorf Air Force Base.