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After being president of the Class of 2024 since freshman year, this year senior Sarah Bayas is executive president of Palmer Trinity School.
As class president, she works on bringing a lot of school spirit to Palmer Trinity.
“And making sure each class is bonded with each other,” she says.
School spirit can be achieved with class events or sporting events, such as volleyball and dodgeball tournaments.
“During homecoming week, everyone was dressed up,” she says. “During homecoming week, we would come to school in costumes. We would have different themes every day, they weren’t used to dressing up because of COVID, so it was exciting to see everyone go all out.”
She says her freshman year was the year when they attended school in masks and some people attended online.
“It was really hard being in student government at the beginning and everyone was still in masks,” she says. “It made it hard to do the activities we wanted to do. We started doing modified activities and then other activities.”
She says she’s glad to see the younger presidents and others in student government continuing the school spirit themes.
“Everyone is like a big family,” she says.
As executive president she meets regularly with the class president to plan activities and then she meets with the administration about issues that students bring up to her.
One student request is that a lot of students want to have a school wide field day.
“We’re trying to work through the logistics of that,” she says. “I’m really excited about it.”
One issue the administration is concerned about is the throwing away of the glass plates at lunch.
As president, she speaks at the chapel.
“I am part of vestry,” she says. “Usually, the president helps at the chapel. We made a new Vestry club. We help make sure the chapel runs smoothly.”
She’s been part of student government since eighth grade.
Bayas also volunteers outside of school. In 2022, she spent much of the summer volunteering for Achieve Miami.
“We volunteer and go to the school,” she says. “We help with their lunch. We go to lunch and do activities and we prepare lessons for them. We read to them. We play music. You have to go for an entire week so you can build a relationship with your Buddy. I went for six weeks.”
The Buddies gravitate toward favorite volunteers. Bayas would rotate between two or three of them. Sometimes she’d work with a whole group.
She also volunteered on Achieve Saturdays throughout the year at Fredrick Douglas Elementary School downtown.
She became involved after an Achieve Miami representative came to the school to tell them about the program.
“I thought it would be a good opportunity to connect with them and support them and help them grow,” she says. “I really enjoyed it. I like to work with kids.”
Last year, she was one of eight students who went on the Round Square Trip to London.
“You talk to different kids who go to school all over the world,” she says. “You talk about different issues and how to solve that. Last year we focused on the environment.”
Her favorite part of the trip was meeting new people from all over the world, and she enjoys staying connected.
“The kids from Argentina, Jordan, and Bangladesh are the ones I keep in touch with the most,” she says.
At school, Bayas is a member of the National Hispanic Honor Society, the Science National Honor Society, Quill and Scroll and the National Honor Society.
Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld
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