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Summer intern assisting a student in the Delphian School Maker Space

Delphian's student leadership program is designed to work seamlessly with our academic program.

School clubs and organizations are more than optional extra-curricular activities at Delphian: they are a required element of each student's educational journey, teaching required competencies of participation, contribution, responsibility and leadership. 

The Delphian leadership program begins with "student service" assignments designed to give students experience in holding different kinds of jobs as part of a group. Through their assigned student service, students practice being dependable, and learn the value of their contribution and of teamwork. Once students prove these skills, they are promoted to a position of responsibility in our student council. After demonstrating exceptional ability in student council, senior students are invited to participate in our outreach program,  where they create and complete a large project focused on helping to make the world a better place. 

two female students in a flower garden wearing work clothes

Student service

Delphian's student service program provides students with an opportunity to grow by experiencing success and failure in a safe and supportive environment while learning how to  make valuable and productive contribution to their community.  

Student services  give students a chance to learn about responsibility, hard work and the value of being dependable.Student service jobs vary in duties and responsibility. Students begin with simple entry level jobs like sweeping a hallway or cleaning a classroom. They are promoted to positions with increasing levels of responsibility and leadership as they demonstrate their dependability and industriousness.  

The positions are designed to be challenging but doable, lasting for fifty minutes each weekday and a few hours on the weekend, scheduled so as to avoid interference with the student's academic program.

a large group of the student council in front of the Delphian building front door

Student Council

Once students have shown their ability to hold a position of trust and responsibility through the student service program, they are invited to join student council, to hold a position of greater responsibility and leadership in the Delphian community.

Student council is a governing body consisting of the top-performing students in the academic and practical area. Student council members manage a variety of essential functions in the Delphian community including: creating and managing student activities on the weekends, fundraising for prom, overseeing study halls, assisting in the library, helping students feel welcome in the dorms, giving tours of the school and more.

Each student is expected to be fully responsible for their position, to challenge themselves to create good results, and to become leaders in the student body.

two teenagers and a young adult holding large 8-foot wooden posts in a rocky desert environment
a group of students at the top of a rocky, desert hill with a desert city in the valley behind them
two male students clearing out rubbles from a broken staircase
a male teenager and female teenagers with work gloves digging out the foundation for a broken staircase
a student in a welding mask and heavy, yellow work gloves welding a metal structure
a teenage student in a welding mask and heavy gloves welding a beam on an airplane
a teenage male student in a blue shirt working on a wooden structure in a science lab
(from left to right) a man with a short white beard, a young teenage female student, a middle aged man with short white hair, a man with short black hair
a group of students and teachers in matching bright green %22Lindbergh Project%22 shirts with a rose-colored %22Lindbergh%22 sign behind them
a photo of a crowd watching as two small airplanes fly so close together they look like they're joined against a bright blue and white clouded sky
a white teenage girl taking a selfie with several young poc children who are smiling and pushing towards the camera
a young woman in a blue shirt holding a %22The Way To Happiness%22 booklet and talking to a room of poc women in white hijabs who are sitting and listening
a female Delphian student talking to a crowd of Ghana women in white hijabs
a white teenage girl holding a small poc baby with African houses in the background
an adult in an astronaut costume with a young girl in a red hood and a young boy in a Wookie costume
a teenage male Delphian student with three poc adults around him holding a large white banner that has the Delphian logo and the UNHCR Refugee Assistance logo
a group of student in blue shirts holding individual Youth for Human Rights certificates
four young students standing in front of the Washington DC capital building
two students looking at and explaining a 3D printing machine
Students helping one another in the classroom
a teenage male student in a gray outfit and muddy boots using a power screwdriver to build an unfinished bridge
a group of male and female teenagers in bright yellow shirts on a roof volunteering help in the aftermath of a hurricane
two students in bright yellow shirts clearing branches while three students in bright yellow shirts reach into an overturned, small jet airplane volunteering assistance in the aftermath a hurricane
a male and female student in bright yellow shirts and PCE masks carrying a steel beam
two male students inspecting a concrete mixer next to a pond with a forest in the background
two male students in hard helmets with face shields lifting a log to feed it into a wood chipper
two male students in work gloves and hard helmets lifting large logs and walking them towards a wood chipper in the background
a teenage boy on the right and a male teacher on the right working together outside on a carpentry project with a pond and forest in the background
two male students lifting a large branch in work gloves and hard helmets with a female teacher supervising to the right
a young man bent over a project welding in a workshop full of tools and projects

Student Outreach

We encourage the concept of global citizenship, of a worldwide community working as a team to improve conditions. Our student outreach  initiative is an opportunity for senior students to explore their part in that team. Seniors are eligible for invitation once they have acquitted themselves admirably on student council, thus fulfilling that practical requirement.

A student participating in the outreach program must first research, plan and propose a meaningful project, approximately 75 hours in length, that will positively impact the local or global community, either independently or through a volunteer organization of their choice.

Where and how they conduct these service projects is up to them. What's important to us is that our seniors are learning global citizenship and seeking ways to contribute to the world at large.

Recent global outreach projects planned and orchestrated by our seniors include: volunteering to help with cleanup after hurricane damage in Florida; teaching study skills to students in China; volunteering  at a wildlife sanctuary in South Africa; traveling to Afghanistan to create films for a school trying to improve education in that country; building a network of bridges and hiking trails on Delphian's campus, and the list goes on.

OUr Mission 

To empower young adults to bring positive change in the world through reason, creativity and integrity.