Brayden Morgan, a rising senior at Glen Burnie High School, will be sworn in as the 52nd Student Member of the Board of Education of Anne Arundel County (SMOB) during a ceremony at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in the Board Room at the Carol S. Parham Building, located at 2644 Riva Road in Annapolis.
Morgan, who will be the fourth SMOB from Glen Burnie High School, will succeed Hafsa Hamdaoui, a Crofton High School graduate whose term ends on June 30, 2025. During his one-year term, he plans to focus on elevating all voices, expanding representation for special education students, and increasing awareness of Career Technical Education and student service opportunities.
Morgan is a member of Anne Arundel County Public Schools’ Student Service Leadership Team, which plans projects, shares opportunities, and advocates for public service throughout the county, and has been the student representative for Glen Burnie High School’s Public Service Signature Program. He will be president of the school’s Interact Club in the coming school year.
A three-year varsity soccer player at Glen Burnie, Morgan is a member of the school’s Athletic Leadership Council. In that role, he helps to promote and improve athletic leadership at the school and in the greater community.
As a junior, Morgan enrolled in Glen Burnie’s AVID program so that he could further promote leadership to fellow students. He also served as an AVID athletic mentor through a program which allowed him to work with a freshman at the school and provide both athletic and academic guidance.
In the just-completed school year, Morgan co-founded the school’s Polar Bear Plunge Committee and helped lead an effort that raised more than $30,000 for Special Olympics.
Students have held a seat on the Board of Education since 1974, when Andover High School’s Jeffrey Robinson served in an advisory capacity. Anne Arundel’s student member has had full voting rights since 1975 and is the only member of a local school board in the nation to have that status.
The ceremony will be broadcast live on AACPS’ YouTube channel and on AACPS-TV.