BRHS students chosen for American Legion programs
These BRHS students have been chosen to attend the Dirigo Boys and Girls State Conferences in June. Pictured from left are Camden Spear, Gabriel Purin, Hannah Morley and Angela Machon. Courtesy of Heather Lorrain/BRHS
These BRHS students have been chosen to attend the Dirigo Boys and Girls State Conferences in June. Pictured from left are Camden Spear, Gabriel Purin, Hannah Morley and Angela Machon. Courtesy of Heather Lorrain/BRHS
Four Boothbay Region High School juniors have been chosen to attend the American Legion Boys State and Girls State programs in June.
Chosen to attend Boys State are Camden Spear and Gabriel Purin and attending Girls State will be Hannah Morley and Angela Machon.
Juniors are nominated by the school faculty based on leadership, good citizenship, honesty, scholarship, cooperativeness, friendship and service to school.
American Legion Post 36 is covering admission costs for all four students this year.
According to the American Legion website's description of the programs (http://www.boysandgirlsstate.org/), "American Legion Boys State and American Legion Auxiliary Girls State are the premier programs for teaching how government works while developing leadership skills and an appreciation for your rights as a citizen. As a participant in the program you, will run for office, learn public speaking, create and enforce laws and actively participate in all phases of creating and running a working government in this exciting and fun summer program."
Boys State will be June 21-25 at Thomas College in Waterville and Girls State will be June 21-26 at Husson University in Bangor.
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