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American Legion Auxiliary Keystone Girls State. Unit Orientation PowerPoint. Why have a Unit Orientation. This PowerPoint is to help each and every Unit learn about the American Legion Auxiliary Keystone Girls State Program. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
American Legion Auxiliary Keystone
Girls State
Unit Orientation PowerPoint
This PowerPoint is to help each and every Unit
learn about the American Legion Auxiliary Keystone Girls State Program.
It is the Units responsibility to find and sponsor the young women for this program. So it only makes sense that each Unit needs to understand the program so that you may better select the citizens and inform them on their upcoming learning experience.
Why have a Unit Orientation
First and foremost the program is called
The American Legion Auxiliary Keystone Girls State. Please try to include the American Legion Auxiliary before the Keystone Girls State when you are talking about the program so that it is known as a program of the American Legion Auxiliary.
We work very hard and do great things as an organization and this program is no different.
For the sake of this PowerPoint I will be using ALA KGS for space and efficiency.
What is the Keystone Girls State Program
The ALA KGS Program is a nonpartisan
participatory program that teaches young women responsible citizenship grounded in ethics, the principles of our nation’s founders and respect for God and Country.
High-school girls who have completed their junior year have the opportunity to spend an intensive week of firsthand learning, working together as self-governing citizens.
What is KGS
During the week long process, the young women
learn about government and the rights of individuals; privileges and responsibilities of franchised citizens by forming fictitious cities that then form Girls State; electing public officials at the local, county and state level, and carrying out the duties of those offices. By the fact of the citizens personally interacting throughout the whole election process and completing the duties that each office entails helps to give them a better understanding of small town America and how one person can make a change within the world.
Continued
It is up to each Unit to choose your representative to
attend the ALA KGS program. Your Unit may sponsor one girl or as many as your Unit so chooses.
The sponsorship fee for each girl is $200. If your Unit paid all of the Department obligations, it would include the $75 Girls State obligation, so your Unit would pay the difference of $125 for the sponsorship.
Once the girl is accepted by your Unit to attend and when she arrives at the program she is referred to as a Citizen. So I will be using this term throughout the PowerPoint.
Eligibility
Requirements to be considered as a participant
of the ALA KGS program:
Unmarried female.
Has successfully completed her junior year of high school.
Has at least one more semester remaining before graduation.
Eligibility
Citizen should demonstrate:
Leadership In school and out
Character Scholarship Loyalty Service
In their school and community
Participants are to be selected on the basis of merit and ability. Please inform your Units representative that the program is
intensive and not a camp. It is a governmental instruction and leadership training program.
Unit should Consider in Selection of Participants
ALA Units should make every effort to sponsor
eligible young women to participate in the ALA KGS program.
Your Units Chairman/President should inform school districts and individual public and private schools about the benefits of the program, explain eligibility requirements and distribute information and applications to the schools.
Your Unit
With this informational PowerPoint the Unit will
also receive a letter to the Unit, as well as a letter to the Guidance counselor or Principle and an application.
This is the only information that the Unit itself needs to select the citizen.
Your Unit
Upon approval of your Unit, the application for the citizen
will be sent in to Department. After the citizen’s information is processed, she will receive
a packet in the mail will all the documentation and information that she will need. Medical Release Form What to bring Dress Code Rules and Regulations Basic ALA KGS info.
The Unit itself will not get this packet for all the information is for the citizen.
The Citizen
The program is held at Shippensburg University in
Shippensburg, Pa. The staff, counselors and citizen reside in a dorm hall for the
duration of the week. Staff is on the lowest floor with citizens on floors above. Each city will have one Senior Counselor and one Junior
Counselor. On average there are 13-17 girls per city. The citizen will be divided into Parties; Nationalist and
Federalist. These two parties have no affiliation to the Democrats and
Republicans. They are just in place so the citizens develop an improved understanding of the two-party system of government.
Items Unit Should Know
There are normally nine cities at KGS. Three cities make up a county. The three counties make up Keystone Girls
State. Floor Plan:
1ST floor; lobby. 2nd floor of the dorm will be staff floor. 3rd floor of the dorm will be Red County. 4th floor of the dorm will be White County. 5th floor of the dorm will be Blue County.
Set-up
Citizen are placed at random into cities and
parties. Each citizen will share a dorm room with a citizen from the opposite party.
Citizens will not be in a room or even a city with a citizen from her same area. This is to help them to make new friends and bond within their own city. So please do not tell your sponsored girl/girls that they can be roommates.
The Citizens will know their assigned party before arrival.
Items Unit Should Know
I am including this section because I know that some
of the citizens want to know what happens when the first arrive for the start of the program.
They arrive at the Campus. Enter the dormitory into the lobby where registration is set-up.
They will go through the registration process: Check-in Review of Medical Release Banquet Information Etc..
What Happens When Citizen First Arrives
After the citizen has completed registration.
They will go to their assigned city and room. Get settled in and unpack. Review their ALA KGS binders; that are in their
rooms Meet their roommate. Attend their first City meeting for their
introduction to KGS. Start of their intensive week of learning.
Arrival
The week is extremely busy from morning till
night. Wake up call is at 6:00 am. Each day is
packed full of sessions, elections, guest speakers and other activities.
Events throughout the week: Debates Senate Session Whistle Stop Campaign Training Sessions
The Week
For one service project, the citizens pack
backpacks for the OMK program. The girls enjoy this project.
Service Project
Hopefully this PowerPoint has given your Unit
a basic understanding of the ALA KGS program.
Thank you immensely for watching this PowerPoint.
Thank You for Your Time
If your Unit has any questions you may
contact; Honor Rounsville, Keystone Girls State Chairman. Email: [email protected]
Mail: PO Box 41 Rew, Pa 16744
Home Phone: (814) 465-3464
Cell Phone: (814) 596-8671
Questions