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HOBY TEXAS GULF
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Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership
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Our Mission Since HOBY's inception in 1958, HOBY has carried out its mission "to seek out, recognize and develop leadership potential commencing with high school sophomores, and to encourage and prepare the next generation of civic and corporate leadership for America's future." |
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This year (2008-2009) marks the twenty-sixth year that a HOBY seminar has been held in Southeast Texas. HOBY Texas Gulf Coast serves Houston and the surrounding area, as far north as Lufkin, northwest to Bryan-College Station and southwest to Hallettsville. The seminar has been held at Rice University. |
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| The Texas Gulf Coast Leadership Seminar runs for three days and exposes over 240 area sophomores to business and community leaders from our area. The format of the seminar develops leadership skills. The seminar encourages interaction between the student ambassadors and community leaders and role models. This interaction challenges participants to examine issues critically. At the end of the Seminar, one male and one female ambassador are selected to attend HOBY's World Leadership Congress. | ||||||||||||
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Who Are We? A non-profit organization founded in 1958 by Hugh O'Brian, which holds conferences in 50 states and internationally. HOBY Texas Gulf Coast held its first conference in 1982. Last year approximately 210 schools in the Texas Gulf Coast region were represented. |
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Our Purpose To seek out, recognize and develop leadership potential commencing with high school sophomores. To expose students to distinguished leaders in the community. To show students they can make a difference. To teach students how to think versus what to think. All HOBY seminars focus on the theme "America's Incentive System." |
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How Do We Achieve? We bring outstanding sophomore students together in our annual 3-day. The students, called Ambassadors, get a realistic look at what makes the American Incentive System work, thus enabling them to think for themselves. This is accomplished through panel discussions, speakers, and leadership exercises. Topics range from education to the media. Our generous supporters allow us to offer this experience to one student from each high school at no cost to the student. |
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Selection of Ambassadors All sophomore students in the Texas Gulf Coast region are encouraged to visit with their high school counselors regarding HOBY TGC participation. The schools nominate their outstanding students, who then attend the seminar. Student selection is left entirely up to the high school. |
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Finances HOBY Texas Gulf Coast is financed by monetary donations from corporations, civic organizations, individuals and gifts-in-kind. All our board members are volunteers and receive no salary. All monies raised are applied directly to the leadership seminar. The total cost per student for our local HOBY Texas Gulf Coast Leadership Seminar is approximately $350. Of this $350, $150 is a base fee charged by HOBY International to the nominating high school, who pays through school funds or fundraising efforts. The majority of this $150 fee is maintained by HOBY International and is used to cover seminar-level expenses such as liability insurance, programming assistance, registration costs, etc. An additional $200 is required per student to cover the expenses of the 3-day local seminar, for example, facility fees, meals, lodging, supplies, printing costs, etc. There is no cost charged to the student; the $200 fee is funded through the generous donations of our supporters – including individuals, corporations, and cooperating organizations such as Kiwanis, Optimists, GFWC, and NMA. We are also excited that HOBY International has introduced an ‘alternate’ program, which allows the nomination of a second sophomore student by the high school to attend our local seminar. This program allows us to reach even more future leaders and broadens the impact of the HOBY. This program is conducted on a "space-available" basis. The fees differ slightly for the ‘alternate’ student. The base $150 fee for HOBY International remains the same; however, the program dictates that HOBY TGC charges the second student the national average for the local seminar portion, which is $175. For the alternate program - the student is responsible for both of these costs. We are working with the schools, students, and our supporting organizations to explore alternative fundraising sources. |
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"The most important thing in education is to make young people think for themselves." - Dr. Albert Schweitzer |
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