Welcome to the Wilson High School Link Crew!

“Link Crew is a high school transition program that welcomes freshmen and makes them feel comfortable throughout the first year of their high school experience. Built on the belief that students can help students succeed, Link Crew trains members of the junior and senior classes to be Link Leaders. As positive role models, Link Leaders are motivators, leaders and teachers who guide the freshmen to discover what it takes to be successful during the transition to high school and help facilitate freshman success.” – The Boomerang Project

Link Crew Coordinators

• Mrs. Erin Stramara
• Ms. Rebekah Marconi

Events

View Link Crew Leader Application 2024-2025

• Link Crew/Freshmen Orientation
  • Applications
    • Applications will be sent on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, to all 10th and 11th graders
    • Applications due Monday, March 25, 2024, by 3:00 pm
    • decision email will be sent by Monday, April 8, 2024
  • Link Crew Development Day:
    • Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2024
    • Time: 1 pm – 2:35 PM
    • Place: UH Gym
    • How: Link be sent when Link Crew Leaders are accepted
    • Who: Students who are accepted to be Link Crew Leaders
    • https://goo.gl/MBGp4A
  • Link Crew Training Days:
    • When: Wednesday, August 14, 2024; 12:00 pm – 3 pm In person
    • When: Thursday, August 15, 2024; 12:00 pm – 3 pm In person
    • Where: UH Gym
    • Who: Students who are accepted to be Link Crew Leaders
    • https://goo.gl/MBGp4A
  • Freshmen Orientation
    • When: Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024
    • Time: Freshmen be there by 10:00 am in LH Cafeteria (enter via ramp door near bulldog field), 10:15 am – 1:00 pm (Freshmen)
    • Time: Link Crew Leaders  9:15 am -1:15 pm, UH Gym
    • Clubs/Chromebook distribution – 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm, UH Gym 
    • https://goo.gl/MBGp4A

• Freshmen Invitation 

• • Time: Freshmen be there by 10:00 am in LH Cafeteria (enter via ramp door near bulldog field), 10:15 am – 1:00 pm (Freshmen)
  • Time:  Link Crew Leaders  9:15 AM-1:15 PM, UH Gym
  • Time:  Clubs – 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm, UH Gym 
  • Where:  Freshmen enter via in LH Cafeteria (enter via ramp door near bulldog field)
  • Where:  Link Crew Leaders report to UH Gym
  • Where: Clubs report to UH Gym

The Process for Accepting Link Crew Leaders

• Fill out the application:  due no later than Friday, March 25, 2024, by 3:00 pm
• Once the application is submitted we will screen them and select students to move on to interviews if necessary.
• After the interviews, we will select the top students to join Link Crew. Our goal is to finish interviews and inform students no later than Monday, April 8, 2024

Students are required to attend:

• Development Day; Thursday, April 23, 2024, 1:00 – 2:35 pm – UNLESS THEY ATTEND BCTC 
• Both days of training (Wednesday, August 14 and Thursday, August 15; 12 pm – 3 pm) in-person
• Freshman Orientation, Thursday, Aug 22, 2024;
  • Time:  Freshmen be there by 10 am (Freshmen) LH Cafeteria (enter via ramp door near bulldog field)
  • Time:  Link Crew Leaders 9:15 am (UH GYM)
  • Time:  Clubs – 12:30 pm (UH Gym)

What the Freshman Day Orientation Looks like?

• Freshman Parent Letter
• A spirited and interactive opening assembly led by your trained adult Coordinator
• A mentor group experience led by trained student Link Crew Leaders
• A school tour led by your trained Link Crew Leaders
• A thoughtful, inspiring closing assembly led by your trained Coordinator

Link Crew kicks off the school year with a fun-filled and educational orientation day that welcomes your transitioning freshmen into your school with a sense of safety in a high spirited, all-inclusive, anti-bullying environment. Freshmen are personally invited to attend the orientation by a junior or senior Link Crew Leader who spends the day with them and mentors them throughout their first year of high school.

The orientation day includes:

Your freshmen exit the gym equipped with information and strategies that will help them be successful in high school, the knowledge that the Link Crew Leaders and the school care about them, and a sea of familiar faces to look forward to on their first day of school. Your Link Leaders emerge with the confidence to be leaders and empowered to help create school change. As a result of these first-day efforts, your freshmen will experience more success, overall school safety will increase and your building will be on its way to a bully-free environment.