Lancaster students learn about local government
Students from the city of Lancaster’s ‘Youth in Government’ program met at the end of February to come up with design ideas for the area around City Hall.
The 22-year-old program is designed to help high-school students with high grades to build skills through interaction with the different city departments.
The students’ design ideas were specifically for the area on 15th Street West from Avenue J-8 to Avenue K. Scholars were divided into four groups and worked with landscape architect Doug Grove, who took their ideas, combined them into a design layout, and presented the revised versions back to them.
Grove, who has co-facilitated the group for 10 years, was impressed with the students’ work and the care the city gives to educating the students.
The Youth in Government program is available to Lancaster High School students and pairs them with city employees, with whom they job shadow in order to learn how each department functions separately and together as a whole.
At the end of the exercise, the students met with their city staff counterparts to write up staff reports and present them at a mock city council meeting.
One participating student, Michelle Temoche, said:
Programs like this look great on students’ college applications, and digital business cards are a superb way to stay in contact with college admissions representatives.
The 22-year-old program is designed to help high-school students with high grades to build skills through interaction with the different city departments.
The students’ design ideas were specifically for the area on 15th Street West from Avenue J-8 to Avenue K. Scholars were divided into four groups and worked with landscape architect Doug Grove, who took their ideas, combined them into a design layout, and presented the revised versions back to them.
Grove, who has co-facilitated the group for 10 years, was impressed with the students’ work and the care the city gives to educating the students.
The Youth in Government program is available to Lancaster High School students and pairs them with city employees, with whom they job shadow in order to learn how each department functions separately and together as a whole.
At the end of the exercise, the students met with their city staff counterparts to write up staff reports and present them at a mock city council meeting.
One participating student, Michelle Temoche, said:
“The program is such a fun and great experience. Meeting and interacting with new people and fellow students from different schools in the Lancaster area is something I will never forget. I would definitely participate in the program again.”
Programs like this look great on students’ college applications, and digital business cards are a superb way to stay in contact with college admissions representatives.