"YMCA Youth & Government"

Amanda Hmelar, Danielle Gee, and Jessa Mellea, with Gillian King in the background, prepare for mock bill hearings in front of an audience of family members and friends Thursday night, Nov. 19. The bills will be refined over the next two months and then presented at the annual California YMCA Youth & Government Conference at the state capital Feb. 11-15, 2016. Between 4 and 5 thousand teens take over the Capital, electing a governor and lieutenant governor, forming a state legislature, and staffing the courts and a media center that produces its own newspaper and TV programming. - Nov 19, 2015

Submitted by Judy Horst on Nov 23, 2015