Maryland Associationof Student Councils
Give your school's delegates the chance to attend MASC events and benefit from MASC's leadership, advocacy, and communication activities! Join Now
Maryland AssociationGive your school's delegates the chance to attend MASC events and benefit from MASC's leadership, advocacy, and communication activities! Join Now
Workshop Presenter Certification:Workshop Presenter Certification Day offers workshops and activities to certify new secondary students as MASC workshop presenters and re-certify those already trained. MASC values peer teaching as a powerful, effective way to develop student leaders, and has built an extensive program to prepare students to deliver engaging, high-quality workshops. As a result, most sessions at MASC conferences are led by students.
MASC is an association of student councils, and the students who participate in our programs and events are expected to be involved with their school’s student council and/or their county-level student council. Students who complete the certification are expected to present at least one of MASC’s three major conferences:
> Fall Leadership Conference – open to all secondary schools in Maryland, regardless of MASC membership.
> Legislative Session – open to MASC member schools.
> State Convention – open to MASC member schools.
Participants in this training will be eligible to apply to present at the Fall Leadership Conference (high school only) and take part in the Legislative Session and Convention as presenters.
Important: Only register if you can attend the entire day. Groups are assigned after registration closes, so if your attendance status changes, please email Karen.Crawford@mdstudentcouncils.org as soon as possible. Registration is open to students in grades 8–12.
Registration: Students register themselves for this event• Event – Saturday, September 19, 2026
• Location – Meade High School (1100 Mustang Way, Ft. Meade, MD 20755)
• Registration: Closes at 5:00 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 5
• Registration link: Click on the graphic
• Fee: No fee; bring your lunch, a reusable water bottle, and a three-ring binder with a cover insert. Students previously certified are asked to bring their binder and handouts (save trees with less printing). MASC provides drinks and cookies. (We have a limited amount of binders available if you don’t have one.)
• Check-in time: 8:30 a.m.- 9:00 a.m.
• Event time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
• Materials: three-ring binder (with cover sleeve), lunch, and a reusable water bottle! MASC provides drinks, cookies, and all workshop binder materials.
Reminder: Students getting recertified should bring their binder/handouts from past years, so MASC doesn’t need to duplicate as many handouts.