Like Louisa’s biggest motto, Family Career Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) works to spread kindness to the community through projects and also works towards national awards. 

  A group of FCCLA students had the idea to create kind messages and fold the paper into airplanes for people to see. After hiding them around the school, FCCLA encouraged students to search for the planes.

FCCLA adviser and teacher Nicole Lohr is working with club members to complete the national projects that have to be done each year. The kindness airplanes fall under the stand-up project to better show the school spreading compassion.

  “My hope was that the students would open the airplanes to see a kind message,” Lohr said.

  Lohr gave club members an opportunity to write their kind messages during lunch to make the project student-made.

  Senior Gladys Escorza has been a member of the FCCLA club since last year.

  “It gives me a way to speak out and help our community because we are the ones that have to promote change and we all must be a leader,” Escorza said.

  FCCLA works to empower kindness, using objects like the airplanes to bring joy to the students it comes in contact with.

  “By showing that we as a community promote kindness, we want to set an example for people to follow,” Escorza said.

Freshman member Savannah Lee came up with the idea of the airplanes. The theme behind the airplanes was “Journey through the air” and the airplanes were a creative way to express it.

  “The school, FCCLA, and kindness relate together in the fact that it’s kindness and our school and how we’re always trying to spread kindness to everyone,” Lee said.

  As a part of school, the project had to connect back to the students. Lee worked with her group to give messages to students all around the school.

  “We wanted them to start feeling better about themselves from the kindness,” Lee said.