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Student and Government Leaders

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

The Wilmette League has offered this cherished village-wide program for over 50 years, making it one of the longest running programs of its kind in any of the 900 local chapters of the League of Women Voters.  It is a 7 session extra-curricular interactive civics program designed for Wilmette 8th graders that typically runs from January through March.
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2023 Program recap

Thirty-three 8th graders from Wilmette Junior High School participated in the 2023 Student & Government Leaders program.

The students were assigned positions as either elected trustees or appointed officials in one of two mock Village of Wilmette board meetings.
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The program consisted of seven sessions: a kick-off event (with representatives from the village board, park board, library board and school board), four school day workshops, an evening meeting where they observed an actual board meeting and met with their government counterparts to learn the ropes, all culminating in Mock Board Meetings held on Wednesday, March 22. The students used Robert's Rules of Order to decide on which of the 10 capital improvement projects from the fire, police, engineering, water management and administrative departments to approve. The mock meetings were live streamed on the local access cable channel.

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