{"id":167408,"date":"2019-03-15T13:36:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T18:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=167408"},"modified":"2019-03-15T13:41:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T18:41:10","slug":"vcsu-student-lauren-roscoe-makes-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=167408","title":{"rendered":"VCSU Student Lauren Roscoe, makes a difference"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Valley City (By: <\/span>Greg Vanney Valley City State University)\u00a0 <\/span>\u2013 Lauren Roscoe is not your typical Valley City State University first-year student. Sure, she\u2019s an elementary education major, like many others at VCSU, but Lauren also serves as the 2018-19 National Student of the Year for SADD\u2014Students Against Destructive Decisions\u2014a national organization with 10,000 chapters across all 50 states (and several U.S. territories) headquartered in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

SADD aims to help \u201cyoung people make positive decisions that advance their health and safety\u201d by empowering them \u201cto successfully confront the risks and pressures that challenge them throughout their daily lives.\u201d SADD tackles this mission through peer-to-peer education on issues such as traffic safety, mental health, suicide, violence, and tobacco, alcohol and drug use.<\/p>\n

As National Student of the Year, Lauren serves as president of SADD\u2019s National Student Leadership Council and as the organization\u2019s national spokesperson, carrying SADD\u2019s advocacy message across the country. She has traveled to Arizona, Georgia, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, New York and Washington, D.C., among others, and attended events such as the national conference of the Governors Highway Safety Organization held in Atlanta in August 2018. Lauren also serves on SADD\u2019s board of directors and attends that group\u2019s quarterly meetings.<\/p>\n

All of that travel makes her a frequent flyer\u2014usually once a month\u2014out of Hector International Airport in Fargo, but otherwise Lauren claims she\u2019s \u201cstill a normal student\u201d who enjoys \u201cjust hanging out with friends, sitting and talking, or watching movies.\u201d<\/p>\n

The SADD staff helps her arrange the many travel logistics, and the organization pays her expenses, but Lauren volunteers her time to the organization she\u2019s served since joining in seventh grade at New Rockford-Sheyenne School in New Rockford, N.D. She did receive a $1,000 scholarship when chosen as National Student of the Year, but for Lauren, \u201cthe real benefit comes in knowing that the work I do is helping save lives,\u201d she says. Lauren came to VCSU because of the strong reputation of its elementary education program; \u201cI always wanted to be a teacher,\u201d she says. In addition to her coursework in that program, she\u2019s also running sprints and middle distance on the VCSU Viking track team.<\/p>\n

Her work with SADD is certainly helping hone Lauren\u2019s leadership skills, including advocacy (\u201cstanding up for yourself\u201d in her words), professionalism (\u201chow to carry yourself in a specific setting\u201d) and time management (\u201chow to balance everything\u201d). She\u2019ll have an opportunity to put them to use this coming summer in an internship at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in Washington, D.C. Until then, she\u2019ll have plenty to do in class and on the track at VCSU while simultaneously carrying out her SADD duties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Valley City (By: Greg Vanney Valley City State University)\u00a0 \u2013 Lauren Roscoe is not your typical Valley City State University first-year student. Sure, she\u2019s an elementary education major, like many others at VCSU, but Lauren also serves as the 2018-19 National Student of the Year for SADD\u2014Students Against Destructive Decisions\u2014a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167411,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167408\/revisions\/167411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}