– Now we have Dylan Gomez Flores from Wilson, and we’re gonna have you come up to the podium and tell us a little bit about yourself or what’s happening at Wilson. – All right. Good afternoon. I would like to start off by saying I am greatly honored and thankful for the
Opportunity to represent my fellow Wilson Bruins. My name is Dylan José Gomez Flores. I am a distinguished scholar in the Public Service and Leadership pathway. I am the current ASB president at Wilson High School. I have been in ASB for three years and have held the position as a leadership representative
Rally coach here with my dear friend Claudia Jacinto Pastrana and, most recently, junior class president. I am also the president of Hermanitos Unidos. It is a club focused on mentoring elementary and middle school students and show them the endless opportunities for success in high school.
I am also vice president of X-Men: The 25 Most Involved Senior Men On Campus, and we dedicate our focus towards public service. I couldn’t be more blessed to kick off the 2023-2024 school year with football. Our students united like no other in our student sections. Although not all games were won,
We sure showed other schools that our spirit is like no other. Our season also included a mixer of (indistinct) at Wilson’s ASB. It was organized by Annette Guzman, poly’s ASB president, and myself. So far, our girls’ golf and girls’ volleyball team are Moore League champions. We are so incredibly proud of them.
Their fierce dedication is unimaginable. Friday the 13th was our homecoming night. We held a rally right before the game dedicating our rally stage to Keith Hansen, who is a former Wilson activities director and then principal. He influenced many on campus and overall was a remarkable representation of what it means
To be a Bruin. Later, we honored our girls’ track team with a rank ceremony for becoming CIF champions. We then celebrated Hispanic Latina, Latino, and Latinx Heritage Month. With the help of teachers on campus, we kicked off the month with a mariachi in the morning before school started,
And it was a huge hit. We danced together like there was no tomorrow. Students watching the staff sing and dance created a connection like no other. Alongside the governors of diversity, equity, and inclusion, DeeDee Okafor and Malea Terry planned and set up the decorations honoring Hispanic culture in the front of the 1,000 building. Other celebrations included the distribution of conchas, a type of pan dulce,
To students, and lunchtime rallies where we line-danced the (foreign) and learned how to salsa. Saturday, October 7th at 7 pm, two days before our annual homecoming week, was our homecoming dance. We completely sold out at a little over 700 tickets. We partied like never before. Later the following week,
Gio Morillo, our governor of clubs, and I organized a total of 81 clubs who sold food ranging from otter pops all the way to In-N-Out burgers. The senior senate, led by previously mentioned Claudia Jacinto Pastrana, has been working on our Halloween movie night where Wilson students gathered together
To watch a fall-based movie together. She has also been putting together winter formal, which will be hosted on March 2 at the Annenburg Center. Our current YBS Scholars Club has been growing at an exhilarating rate. Starting off at an initial 10 members has now over 200 students.
And Niah Harper, the president of YBS, has been working on bringing back last year’s hits, like the step show where students learned about the Divine Nine, historically African American sororities and fraternities, the young black scholars’ talent show, and even their amazing barbecue. For the month of November,
The governor of human relations, Valaria Antillon, is preparing the organization for our yearly canned food drive. She will be setting up a friendly competition between classes to see who can donate the most amount of cans. Each year, we are able to donate about 7,000 cans to the Salvation Army.
Leading into December, ASP will be hosting what we’ve come to know at Wilson as our Reindeer Games. It is a spirit week on campus dedicating to getting students excited to all winter festivities. This hasn’t even concluded our first semester here at Wilson. The pride in being a Bruin fills every nook and cranny,
And at Wilson, every day is a great day to be a Bruin. – Wow, okay. Before we go on, I know- And thank you for providing these. That’s gonna be fun, but I’m gonna ask the staff to keep em’ on their desk and at the (indistinct) during the rest of the meeting. Right now, okay, but later, no. So, Dylan, are there people in the audience you’d like to acknowledge or introduce? – Yes, I would like to thank Miss Caverly, our principal at Wilson, Mrs. Fazia, our activities director, and my mom. They all are pretty much my support system for today and really grateful they are here. – Fabulous, fabulous. Dr. Benitez. – Dylan José Gomez Flores. You’re right, it is good to be a Bruin, every day. Every day. So thank you, Dylan, for your wonderful summary. I appreciate you bringing up- we just finished celebrating Latinx Heritage Month, and you mentioned an organization I’d love to hear more about, Hermanitos Unidos.
So little siblings, loosely translated. Can you talk a little bit more about that program? – So, this club on our campus started off during COVID. A lot of students no longer had access to communication with their teachers, and that sort of connection was lost, so it was originally a Zoom club
That started with elementary school students and high school students. So we would Zoom with these kid members and we would tutor them on any questions that they had on their subjects. And this has continued on. We still do the Zoom meetings to this day. Our next Zoom meeting is next week,
And basically, we get to know the kids, we have little celebrations with them, we hit every milestone, we go over our accomplishments, we answer questions for their high school and how to pick the best school and stuff like that. – Awesome. Is this something that’s at our other high schools, Dr. Camrino?
Wink, wink. – [Dr. Camrino] Some of our schools do these clubs and mentor the neighborhood schools around them, middle and elementary schools. – That’s awesome, thank you. – Tell who your teacher sponsor is, as well. – Our teacher sponsor is Mr. Herrera. – [Dr. Benitez] Mr. Herrera. – Yeah. – Yeah? Awesome.
So I have a pitch, and I’m glad that Miss Caverly’s here. So there’s a book called “Mariacheros, Mi Toteros, y Fandangeros,” by Alvaro Ochoa that explores the Afro-Mestizo roots of mariachi music. So, folks just kinda associate mariachi music with being Central Mexican regional folk music, but it actually has long deep Afro-Mestizo roots.
I mean, if you think about songs, I mean, I heard your perfect Spanish, Dylan. “El Son de le Negra,” right? The song of the black woman, right? So I would really encourage, as you’re engaging in these cultural affirmation and festivities, for us to think about all of the common experiences that we share
With our very diverse community. So congratulations on all your work, Dylan. – Thank you. – Thank you for sharing with us. You’re incredibly talented, and you’re doing a lot of great things at Wilson. Just my question, what do you see yourself doing after high school? – So, after high school, I see myself
Attending UCLA or UC Berkeley. I wanna pursue a major in political science and working towards either becoming an immigration lawyer or a political advocate for immigrants.
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