{"id":18276,"date":"2016-02-02T10:40:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T16:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=18276"},"modified":"2016-10-31T14:57:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T20:57:21","slug":"students-invited-to-attend-unicameral-youth-legislature-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=18276","title":{"rendered":"Students invited to attend Unicameral Youth Legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High school students are invited to take on the role of state senators at the Unicameral Youth Legislature June 5-8. At the State Capitol, student senators will sponsor bills, conduct committee hearings, debate legislation and discover the unique process of the nation\u2019s only unicameral.<\/p>\n<p>The Unicameral Youth Legislature gives behind-the-scenes access to students who have an interest in public office, government, politics, law, public policy, debate or public speaking. Students will learn about the inner workings of the Legislature directly from senators and staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdopting the role of a student senator is the most engaging and memorable way that students can learn about the legislative process,\u201d said Ami Johnson, the Legislature\u2019s civic education coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline to register is May 15. Registrants are encouraged to apply for the Speaker Greg Adams Civic Scholarship award, which covers the full cost of admission. Applicants must submit a short essay. Other $100 scholarships also are available.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Nebraska-Lincoln\u2019s Extension 4-H Youth Development Office coordinates housing and recreational activities for the camp as part of its Big Red Summer Camps program. To learn more about the program, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/nebraskalegislature.gov\/education\/unicamyouth.php\">www.NebraskaLegislature.gov\/uyl<\/a> or call (402) 471-2788.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High school students are invited to take on the role of state senators at the Unicameral Youth Legislature June 5-8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civic-education","category-features"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18277,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18276\/revisions\/18277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}