Worland High School student selected for Economics Leadership Program

Daniel Igleheart, a junior at Worland High School during the 2014-2015 school year, has been selected to participate in the Economics of Leaders program being conducted at the University of California, Berkeley during the month of June. Daniel is one of 40 students from around the country who is honored by being accepted into the Foundation for Teaching Economics' Berkeley Economics for Leaders program. All of the students have been selected because they have demonstrated excellent leadership potential.

During the week-long Economics for Leaders program, students attain an understanding of economic reasoning principles and how to employ these concepts for successful and effective leadership. Additionally, participants achieve a heightened awareness of the impact their decisions have on others and their responsibility that awareness imposes. Economics for Leaders is and unparalleled learning and growing opportunity. Students who have attended Economics for Leaders programs in prior years have called it "the experience of a lifetime."