Six DSHS juniors to attend Texas Bluebonnet Girls State on scholarship

The Vince F. Taylor American Legion Post 290 is sponsoring the admission for six Dripping Springs High School juniors to attend Texas Bluebonnet Girls State. Attendees are nominated, sponsored, and registered through their local American Legion Auxiliary unit or high school. While usually held at Texas Lutheran University in Seguin, this year the 77th Session will be held virtually

June 20 through 25. Texas Bluebonnet Girls State is a mythical 51st state where, for one week, participants, or “citizens”, organize their own city, county, and state governments. During the conference, attendees will learn about Texas state government through on demand video presentations from both Girls State staff and elected Texas officials. The participants will also meet in virtual sessions with Girls State staff each day. During that time, the participants will engage in activities in which they will have the opportunity to experience Texas government first-hand. Upon completion, participants will receive a Texas Girls State pin and certificate.

According to its website, Girls State began about 50 years ago by the American Legion and American Legion Auxiliary to: educate youth in the duties, privileges, rights and responsibilities of American citizenship; give future citizens, in a realistic manner, an opportunity to learn the problems of government by performing the same duties as real office holders in the everyday world; inform them of the rights and privileges of American citizenship; instill a deep sense of the personal responsibilities and obligations which this citizenship entails.