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Florida Girls State for 2024 is scheduled to take place from June 20 to June 28 in Tallahassee. This is the 78th session of Girls State in Florida and approximately 300 delegates statewide will attend.
Palmetto Bay’s American Legion Post 133’s Women’s Auxiliary recently hosted an orientation meeting to let this year’s delegates, alternates and their parents know what to expect during the trip and the week’s visit to the State Capitol. The 14th District is made up of American Legion Units from Key West to North Miami.
This year the delegates selected were Amelia McKay of South Miami Senior High School; Nicole Lopez, Cutler Bay Senior High School; Keyla Estevez, Miami Southridge Senor High School; Victoria Hoffman, Archbishop Coleman Carrol High School; Susan Lopez, Miami Palmetto Senior High School; Natalie Rodrigues, Miami Palmetto Senior High School; Delaney Novak, Miami Palmetto Senior High School, and Brooke Wilensky, Miami Palmetto Senior High School.
The purpose of Girls State is to provide citizenship training for girls of high school age in every department of the American Legion Auxiliary; to afford them an opportunity to live together as self-governing citizens; to inform them about the duties, privileges, rights and responsibilities of American citizenship, in order that they may understand and participate in the functioning of their government, and to help them grasp the meaning of some of the responsibilities which they must assume when they become adults.
The delegates will arrive early in the morning at Post 133 for final paperwork checks and to board buses that will take them to Tallahassee. There will be more than 35 staff members and six State Troopers accompanying the girls at all times, and they will stay in dormitories on the campus of Florida State University. They will form their own city governments, run for office, write bills and attend actual State Capitol meetings to observe how things work.
The Girls State Motto is “Forward Forever, Backward Never, Within Ourselves Our Future Lies.”
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