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Junior Leadership Manatee

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Get a first hand look at business, government, agriculture, and the media from behind the scenes. Meet and discuss with community leaders issues of today and ideas and concerns you have about them. See what career and employment opportunities are available in our county. An excellent experience you can include on your resume or college application. To be eligible for participation, you:

Must be a

high school sophomore to apply and a high school junior at the time of participation. Must have a minimum 2.5 unweighted GPA. Must attend a mandatory Orientation and all monthly sessions.

03/20/2024

Junior Leadership Manatee celebrates the dedication of America’s farmers and farm families here in Manatee County. This year's students recently visited Jones Potato Farm Inc., AP Bell Fish Company, Pacific Tomato Growers and Detwiler's Farm Market—for its Agriculture & Land Use Day.
Today is National Ag Day! #

09/11/2023

Great start to the 2023-24 Junior Leadership Manatee Program with this past weekend’s orientation! The students split up into four teams and participated in fun ice-breaker games led by student board members. Special thanks to King Family Farm for letting us use their beautiful facility again this year and to all of our sponsors—NEXTGEN Family Magazine, Manatee County Sheriff, Bradenton Kiwanis, HCA Florida Blake Hospital, Manatee Chamber of Commerce, Leadership Manatee Alumni Association, thejoyfm.com, Children's World, Physical Therapy Doctors of Florida LLC and The MN5—who make this program possible.

For pictures taken by our wonderful student board member, Ella, please visit 199120017@N03" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://flickr.com/photos/199120017@N03

05/02/2023

Online application deadline EXTENDED to May 15! If you know any rising juniors who live in or go to school in Manatee County, they still have time to complete an online application at bit.ly/JLM24application. This is their chance to connect with local leaders; explore potential careers; and learn about our community's challenges, needs and resources through chartered-bus tours on six themed program days. Full scholarships available!

04/30/2023

Congratulations to our 2022-23 Junior Leadership Manatee graduates! We know all of you are on your way to do great things! Thank you to our two wonderful speakers at Graduation Dinner: City of Bradenton Government Mayor Gene Brown and Mitch Lomazov, speaker and coach at EXCELLence Performance. And thank you to our outgoing board members who have dedicated numerous hours over the past four years: Karen Rutherford, Joy FM; Taylor Consulting & Executive Coaching; and Kevin Morris, County, Florida Government.

04/18/2023

Junior Leadership Manatee students got a behind-the-scenes tour of Pirate City, Sarasota Bradenton International Airport (SRQ) and 26 West Center at State College of Florida (entrepreneurship Center, video production Creative Studio and SCF Coding Academy) at their last program day this month. With a focus on Business & Industry, they also received an overview from Max Stewart, Vice President of Bradenton Economic Development Corporation, of the key business sectors that make up Manatee County, and they learned how MTC and SCF have been responding to the demand to fill jobs, including advanced manufacturing. In addition, students received a make-up Culture & Recreation tour of The Family Heritage House. Thank you to everyone who took the time out to provide interesting and engaging tours and discussions!

03/04/2023

Current high-school sophomores who attend school and/or live in Manatee County are invited to complete an online application to join the 2023-24 Junior Leadership Manatee class. This unique program gives students the opportunity to travel via charter bus during the school year on six themed program days (law enforcement, culture & recreation, business & industry, health & human needs, media & marketing and agriculture & land use day). Students can connect with local leaders, explore potential careers and learn more about local issues impacting our community. Those interested, should apply online at https://bit.ly/JLM24 ($25 discount ends March 31).

02/21/2023

During today’s Agriculture & Land Use Day, JLM students toured Dakin Dairy Farms, Gamble Plantation and Pacific Tomato Growers and heard a presentation from Kelly Strausbaugh, Marketing Vice President at Mainspring Communications about land use and animal integration. Thank you to Publix for providing lunch, and thank you to Detwiler’s for allowing students and facilitators to park at their very busy Palmetto store!

01/18/2023

Junior Leadership Manatee students breezed through Media & Marketing Day yesterday, starting off at Your Observer where Executive Editor & COO, Kat Hughes, broke down their target audience and reach for their 10 newspapers throughout Florida. She also provided a list of diverse jobs in media, such as IT, digital ad fulfillment and events, and the ways they’ve continued to get news in front of readers (they’ll be launching a new app on February 1). Then it was off to The JOY FM where they mentioned their humble beginnings in 1986 and how they've expanded their audience to the majority of Florida in part due to continued engagement through both social media and outreach. Our last tour was at ABC7 Sarasota - WWSB, where we were greeted by Jeffrey Benninghoff, Vice President & General Manager; Jeff Schlesser, News Director and Joseph Dunn, Director of Marketing. They first took us into a taping of a View segment then gave us a tour of their newsroom and production team. After, we headed out to Manatee County, Florida Government's Conservatory Park for a quick but informative overview of the Convention & Visitors Bureau from the Kolby Gayson, Marketing & Communications Director. Thank you to everyone who took the time to present to this year's students!

10/07/2022

The calm before the storm . . . 2022-23 JLM Student Orientation on Saturday, September 24! Thank you so much to our ongoing Premier Sponsor NEXTGEN Family Magazine and our other wonderful sponsors: Bradenton Kiwanis, The JOY FM, HCA Florida Healthcare, Manatee Chamber of Commerce, Physical Therapy Doctors of Florida LLC, The MN5, Taylor Consulting & Executive Coaching, Children's World and King Farms—our gracious host for the second year in a row. You are helping to mold our next generation of leaders! Thank you for your ongoing support of our program and our community!!

06/25/2022

Congratulations to our two 2022 Scholarship Winners: Aksharaa Praveenkumar of Lakewood Ranch High School and Aleta Alvin of State College of Florida Collegiate School. Each won $500 for an essay about how they applied what they learned from the JLM program during their senior year. The scholarship money will be sent to their colleges: Aksharaa is attending FSU where she plans to major in biological science on a pre-med track, and Aleta is attending USF Tampa in their Upper-Division Nursing Program.

04/30/2022

Rising high school juniors (who live or go to school in Manatee County), online applications at juniorleadershipmanatee.org are due by midnight tonight. Have an issue preventing you from getting your application in? Contact us at [email protected] and let us know!

On the fence about joining? Ask a graduate what they thought of the program. Here's what some of them have to say:

“Before I started this program, I was very shy and had intense social anxiety. I always stayed in my bubble with the same group of friends, and never put myself out there. However, by the end of JLM, I have become more outspoken, confident and have a different view of life,” - Madison Burt (Manatee High), JLM 2020

"JLM allowed me to gain a real-world insight into many of the parts of Manatee County that work together to allow it to function," Zachery Hovatter (SCFCS), JLM 2020

“This program helped me discover new opportunities and parts of my community I never knew existed. I’m thankful for the opportunity to be part of such a unique program. I’m going to use these valuable lessons in college, my career and personal life,” - Griffin MacRae (Southeast), JLM 2019

04/22/2022

The Bishop Museum of Science and Nature was the perfect venue for Junior Leadership Manatee's graduation dinner tonight. Thank you to Richard T. Conard for providing a brief history of Manatee County and Mitch Lomazov at EXCELLence Performance for his inspirational speech! And special thanks to NEXTGEN Family Magazine for your sponsorship over the years!

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Bradenton, FL
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http://www.JuniorLeadershipManatee.org/

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