Monday, June 16, 2014
The third day of Badger Boys State began with the first day of schools of instruction. In these sessions, the citizens learn about topics ranging from current environmental issues to how to improve public speaking skills. Each citizen picks three of the eight schools to attend and will go through three sessions of each school. Here, Gary Williams addresses citizens in the leadership school.
Here, students learn more about parlimentary procedure from Patrick Braatz, assistant director of elections, during another school of instruction.
After lunch today, the counties held their county party conventions. At these conventions, the citizens separated into their respective parties (nationalists and federalists) to determine who they would put on the ballot for county-level positions. That election will be held tomorrow.
Another county holds its county party convention. This is a great time for the citizens to get to know each other better and what everyone’s strengths are.
As the weather became warmer today, the citizens were even more excited to get outside and play sports. Each county has a team for each sport and the teams will be competing all week against each other. At the end of the session, the athletic director will announce which teams placed first, second and third among each other for each sport. Here, citizens are burning off energy playing ultimate frisbee.
At tonight’s general assembly, all city mayors and state troopers took the oath of office (pictured here). The state troopers will now act as the citizens’ security task force, which includes stopping traffic to cross streets.