Due to the generous support of Judge Peter Smith '51, Midland students have had the opportunity to manage and spend money from their own endowment for student activities and initiatives. The goal of the Student Life Endowment Plan is to expand the school's mission of developing self-reliant individuals to the financial arena.  Recently in Don Redl's Financial Economics and Investing class, students were asked to write proposals for investing $50,000 of the endowment.  The top two student proposals, as voted by their peers, were developed by Mariah Chen '11 and Micah Kalem '13. Mariah and Micah presented their plans to the Student Council this week and the Council chose Micah's investment plan. Congratulations to Micah and a big thanks to Judge Smith for all of his support!