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oldest collegiate-level Model Senate. Each year, students from colleges and universities around the nation gather at
Stetson University for this three-day event. The F.M.R. Model U.S. Senate reproduces the actual procedures and activities of the United States Senate in an effort to provide experience and education for the student participants. Each student is assigned a Senator in one of five legislative committees (Armed Services, Foreign Relations, HELP, EPW or Judiciary) and is responsible for researching a variety of bills, crafting appropriate amendments and portraying the assigned senator as accurately as possible. In addition, the Model Senate attracts national speakers and lecturers, including former and sitting United States Senators. In addition, in 2013 the Model Senate Program introduced a journalism program that allows students to live report about the event as well as play the role of real journalists and report on the Model Senate.
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the role of a real U.S. Senator and will participate in a two-day model senate conference. Over these two days, students will participate in floor sessions, introduce legislation, mark up legislation in committee, and attend party caucuses. They will get a sense of what it is like to be a U.S. Senator and leave with a better understanding of the country's legislative system.
157:"Senate", a model congress featuring only one house, was founded by Laura Donnan. In it, students took the roles of real senators to debate the issues of their time. A majority of the Senators were young women, and the Senate gave them a way to participate in the political world which would normally be closed to them. Unfortunately, the club closed with the school in 1981.
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Schools in New York, specifically the Nassau County and Westchester County areas, participate in a competitive debate league known as United Model Congress (UMC). These eight schools get together 8 times during the school year and debate over various pieces of mock legislation just as an
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created the U.S. Model Senate program as an educational tool to improve high school students’ understanding of the legislative process in the
American government and to encourage their political engagement. The current President of this club is William Jenkins. Each student will be assigned to play
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hosts the United States' first and oldest college-level Model United States Senate program annually in Spring. Founded in 1971 by Dr. T. Wayne Bailey, political science professor, and then-political science student John Fraser, Stetson
University's Floyd M. Riddick Model U.S. Senate is the nation's
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Every participating team and their coach is expected to arrive at the conference location at a specified time, most of the time between 8-10 pm. As the senators and lobbyists arrive they are told the time frame in which they are expected to lobby. Lobbyist represent interest groups, government
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DoDDS-Europe MUSS is organized cooperatively by the teacher board and the appointed student board. The student board is typically composed of six students from six different schools. These six students and the teachers' advisory board usually meet in
December to organize most of the conference
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established an annual Model
Congress conference known as Walker Model Congress. The first conference was in 2012 and has hosted several hundred delegates from high schools and middle schools nationwide. It is entirely student-led and run with a staff of approximately 100 people.
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Model
Congress Club is the longest running high school level model congress in the country. Model Congress originated at New Rochelle High School in 1964 when faculty advisor William P. Clarke sought an extracurricular outlet for bright students not engaged in sports.
103:, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. North Carolina has a program similar to Model Congress called North Carolina Youth Legislative Assembly, and Arkansas has one called the Arkansas Student Congress on Human Relations. The mock assembly models the
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soon followed with a conference on April 23, 2011. The circuit is gradually expanding. World Youth Model
Congress, organized by college and high school students from South Korea, is the first of its kind to be held in North-East Asia.
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Seaford are one delegation known as Tri-Delegation, or "Tri-D" for short. Former members of this delegation are J.F. Kennedy and W.C. Mepham high schools of Bellmore-Merrick, and Gen. MacArthur high school of Levittown.
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