The Halton District School Board is pleased to announce secondary school students Ethan Ruggiero and Cindy Wang as the Board’s Student Trustees for the 2022-2023 school year. Both students were successful in their bid to be elected to the role at the Student Senate meeting last night (Feb. 24) through an online election with 15 candidates running, which saw more than 2,000 students vote.
Ruggiero is in Grade 11 and attends Dr. Frank J. Hayden Secondary School and Wang is a Grade 11 student at Oakville Trafalgar High School. The new term of office officially begins on Aug. 1, 2022.
“I am incredibly honoured to have the opportunity of representing all 66,000 students of the HDSB alongside my fellow trustee, Cindy Wang, for the 2022-2023 school year,” says Ruggiero.
“I am deeply humbled and honoured to serve as a Student Trustee for the upcoming school year alongside Ethan Ruggiero,” Wang says. “The beauty of the Student Trustee position lies in the ability to empower student voice as a means of change to create better school communities and experiences for all.”
In recognizing the results of the Student Trustee election, Trustees of the Halton District School Board welcomed Ruggiero and Wang to their roles as Student Trustees for the 2022-2023 school year.
“Congratulations to Halton District School Board’s newly elected Student Trustees Cindy Wang and Ethan Ruggiero,” says Chair Margo Shuttleworth.
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