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State Representative Gene Pelowski Jr.
100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
651-296-8637
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MODEL LEGISLATURE TO BE HELD DECEMBER 1-2 AT WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY Annual event gives area high school students opportunity to experience the legislative process for themselves
(St. Paul, MN)--One hundred thirty students from Winona Senior High, Cotter Senior High, Winona Middle School, Bluffview Montessori School and Winona State University will participate in a Model Legislature at Winona State University. Grades 9-12 will be Representatives, Senators, the Governor and Lt. Governor. Students from Winona Middle School and Bluffview Montessori School will serve as pages. Winona State University students will be advisors.
"This may be the only activity in the nation where grades 6-16 participate in a hands-on educational activity," said Rep. Gene Pelowski (DFL-Winona), who has taught the "Teaching Social Studies in the Secondary" course for WSU for the past 16 years and has been the advisor to the WSHS Model Legislature for 30 years. The event will be held in WSU's Maxwell Leadership Center on Thursday, December 1st and Friday, December 2nd from 9:00 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. both days. The public is invited to attend.
In preparation for becoming Social Studies teachers, Winona State University students in Pelowski's 'Teaching Social Studies in the Secondary' course will be participating as committee administrators to each of the ten legislative committees, staff to the Speaker of the House, President of the Senate and Governor's
Office. They will do a journal of this experience in a power point format that will be presented to the class as their final, explaining how the teachers and the students learned the legislative process from each other.
"Rather than reading about it in books, this gives students the chance to actively learn the intricacies of the legislative process. They present their bill in committee. If it passes committee, they will have to debate it in the House and Senate. If it passes both houses, it will be up to the Governor to sign or veto it," said Rep.Pelowski.
Participants are able to research actual bills that will appear before the Minnesota Legislature in St. Paul during the upcoming legislative session by using the Legislature's web site: http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/, which lists bills that will be introduced this year. Students in this year's Model Legislature have researched and drafted approximately 110 bills.
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