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Latino high school students from seven states and two foreign countries will participate in a week-long mock legislative process next week at Colorado State University.
The Colorado Lorenzo de Zavala Youth Legislative Session features a general convention, committee hearings, Supreme Court trials and lawmaking activity for Latino sophomores and juniors who have at least a 3.2 grade-point average in a college-bound curriculum.
Students campaign for positions, deliver speeches and develop constituencies. They present and debate legislative proposals and try to push them through the lawmaking process.
The program, which runs June 19-26, has been in place since 1990 and is co-hosted by CSU and the National Hispanic Institute.
