Several leadership clubs hosted a conference at the University of Kansas Edwards Campus on Thursday, Feb. 19.

With about 260 students attending, students from the Professional Careers Academy Social Science Strand and Falcon Flight Crew gave four presentations about how to become a better leader.

“I think that the students were able to see the importance of communication and use of their strengths and weaknesses to become better leaders,” Jordan Megles, senior, said.

Megles gave a presentation for FFC that helped students find their strengths within their weaknesses and their weaknesses in their strengths.

“We had a yin and yang activity where students wrote their strengths on the white side and their weaknesses on the black side. Afterwards, they wrote the weaknesses of their strengths in the black circle, and vice versa for their weaknesses,” Megles said.

In accordance with the FFC lecture, the PCA Social Science leaders gave a presentation about how to take what you love and turn it into a service project to help others.

“We showed students how to take their passions and discover the heartbreak in their passions. From those heartbreaks they can figure out ways to help others,” Heather Smoker, junior, said.

PCA showed their students a video about a project they did in the past to help illustrate to the students that they can make a difference.

“We showed them a water video that told students how many people die a year from water diseases or lack of water. The video put the amount into perspective. It was over 3 million people, which is equivalent to a 9/11 every hour or five Hurricane Katrina’s a month,” Smoker said.

Overall, memebers of FFC and PCA hope that students took away a new perspective on what it means to be a leader.

“I hope that Olathe South will be able to host this conference again in the future, it really helped FFC learn to improve their own leadership,” Megles said.