{"id":21264,"date":"2018-05-15T08:30:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T12:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=21264"},"modified":"2018-05-15T08:30:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T12:30:34","slug":"coatesville-hs-students-participate-in-youth-government-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=21264","title":{"rendered":"Coatesville HS students participate in Youth Government Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7225\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_1079.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7225\" src=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_1079-350x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Last month, three high school students from the Brandywine YMCA, Kristian Williamson, Rowan Kelly, and Dallas Smith of Coatesville, Pa., attended the Annual Youth and Government Model Convention in Harrisburg.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last month, three high school students from the Brandywine YMCA, Kristian Williamson, Rowan Kelly, and Dallas Smith of Coatesville, Pa.,\u00a0attended the Annual Youth and Government Model Convention in Harrisburg. This four-day event brought together more than 600 youth delegates who had spent the last year researching and writing bills. The students wrote bills about topics that were important to them such as mandating medical kits, providing nutritional information in school lunches to assist students with allergies and even changing the state flower.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To prepare Williamson, Kelly and Smith for the Convention,\u00a0Chris Hutelmeyer, Teen Program Instructor at the Brandywine YMCA, met with them weekly for the past five months. Hutelmeyer worked with each in\u00a0generating ideas about the bills they wanted to write.\u00a0He listened, offered suggestions and assisted each in crafting the bill for the topic they ultimately chose. Next, each researched their bill and then presented it to Hutelmeyer and the Brandywine YMCA Executive Director, LaKeisha Harris. Both asked additional questions of the students to ensure their arguments were strong in preparation\u00a0for the debate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the Capitol building, the youth delegates debated their bills in committees, and the bills presented by Williams, Kelly and Smith passed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, three high school students from the Brandywine YMCA, Kristian Williamson, Rowan Kelly, and Dallas Smith of Coatesville, Pa.,\u00a0attended the Annual Youth and Government Model Convention in Harrisburg. This four-day event brought together more than 600 youth delegates who had spent the last year researching and writing bills. The students wrote bills about topics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21265,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21264\/revisions\/21265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}