President
Adam Young

Terms Served: (President) October 2004 - April 2005

Hometown: Clovis, NM

Year: Junior

Accomplishments:
        Assisted with the formation of the N.C.N.W.A.
        Corresponding Secretary of the Northland College Chapter of the AMS
        Summer internship at KSAN-TV in San Angelo, TX
        Helped create N.C. Forecast Lab
        Organized 7-Day Forecast Team
        Went to the New Mexico State Track meet senior year of high school in the 300m Hurdles
        Attended 84th Annual AMS National Conference

Biography

    People often ask me 'Why I want to be a Meteorologist?'  I usually tell them a dual answer.  I've wanted to do this since I was 6 years old, so becoming a meteorologist just feels natural.  The second answer I give is the fact that this field is always changing.  Everyday we learn something new or disprove something we thought we knew.  There are also very few right or wrong kind of answers to things.  If you forecast 65 degrees, and its 66, you're not right, but you are not wrong either.  Although I grew up in a military family, I consider Clovis, NM, home.  I consider it home because that is where I did most of my growing up and I discovered who I really am.  I graduated from a small school called Grady High School in a class of 8.  That right there is a large part of who I am.  I began to appreciate a lot of the values that surround a small farming community, and even began adopting a lot of them as my own.  There is a sense of family and self there that is so different then that of a city.  This is a reason why I don't have the ambition to make it to a big market in my plans for a career in broadcast meteorology.  I don't want raise a family in the atmosphere the surrounds big cities.  My ideal locations for settling down one day would be in Amarillo, Lubbock, or somewhere else in the region.  Just because I don't want to be in a big market does not mean I don't strive to make myself as good as I can possibly be, which is a fact that is often under looked.  Just because you might be a meteorologist in a small TV market, doesn't make you bad.  All that aside, I plan to graduate in 2006 with my B.S. in Meteorology and a minor in Physics from Northland College.  It is a huge honor being chosen to be the first President of this organization.  Being the first in anything presents challenges, but I know with the other officers, and the members of this group, we'll make it through the rough seas that may be ahead.