Elementary Concert Band students at both Centre and Rhame schools have been hard at work preparing a challenging Winter Concert program. Part of the fun includes students volunteering as conductors, who take the podium in the fifteen minutes prior to morning band. Students have been arriving earlier to rehearsals, warming up more thoroughly, and having more productive rehearsal time since student conducting began. The initiative reaches student leadership potential and gives all participants a greater understanding of what it takes to put on a great performance.