Inter-Districts Wrap Up 

By: Molly Burhans

Monday, February 8th, 2016

Homer’s Youth and Government program takes a trip to McQuaid Jesuit School in Rochester every year for an Inter-District Conference. This conference is designed to prepare students for the state conference in Albany in March, and every year it does not disappoint. The students that are a part of the Judicial Branch finalize their briefs, compare their arguments, and run through their case as many times as possible. The run-throughs are organized so that you never go against the same person twice, and ideally, you are against someone from another district; this allows you to gain a better understanding of your case. According to Chief Justice, Tighe Gugerty, the Judicial Branch was very successful. The Legislative branch also performed extremely well, and got a taste of what it’s like to be in Albany presenting a bill.  The President of our club, Jordan Laundry, commended our work at Inter Districts and is looking forward to seeing what we achieve at the state conference.

District 6, which includes Homer, is currently very influential due to the fact that one of our own members, Andrew Jacobi, is Governor, and Kennedy George is Public Defender. This past summer we also had many students invited to CONA, which is a national conference for exceptional members of Youth and Government. Though many of our leaders will be graduating this year, we have a lot of promising talent to look forward to. We have junior, Joey Esposito running for Public Defender, sophomore, Beth Gilbert, running for Chief Justice, and sophomore, Chris Delage, running for Speaker of Assembly Liberty. Overall, Inter Districts was a major success and the state conference will undoubtedly go just as smoothly.