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 who I am today because of the HDSB system, and I am especially honoured to be the first student trustee from both Dr. Frank J. Hayden Secondary School and John William Boich Public School. I eagerly anticipate working and collaborating with students from across the board by furthering current foundational work from outgoing Student Trustees Widyalankara and Bao to make the HDSB a place to be proud of. I would like to thank all my teachers, peers, and students for supporting me throughout the years, and I look forward to this next chapter of our journey together!”
"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. I am incredibly grateful for the trust placed in me to advocate on behalf of the thousands of diverse voices, personalities, and ideas that make up the HDSB, and I can't wait to see what the future holds for us 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. “The Trustees of the Halton District School Board deeply value student voice. We look forward to working together to strengthen and build upon their pillars of equity and transparency, support for mental health and climate change. Both campaigns focused on opportunities to change the narrative and ensure that student voice is not just heard, but used as the reason for change, and we hope to contribute to their pursuit toward these goals.”
For additional information, contact:
Margo Shuttleworth, Chair
Halton District School Board
shuttlewortm@hdsb.ca
