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It's beginning to sound like a broken record, but the team from Our
Lady of Lourdes Academy has again won the county and state levels of
the We the People -- the Citizen and the Constitution high school
competition.
The Our Lady of Lourdes Academy winners of the Florida "We the
people" com
Sponsored by the Florida Law Related Education Association, the
Lourdes team defeated groups from around the state at the finals held
in Orlando at the University of Central Florida. The team and teacher,
Rosie Heffernan, will compete in the national championships in
Washington in May.
The Lourdes team has consistently exhibited a broad knowledge of
the Constitution and Bill of Rights, winning the Miami-Dade
championship every year but one since 1991, while winning the
nationals in 1994 and placing second last year.
The Lourdes team is made up of Carolina Bolado, Giannina Berrocal,
Carmen Ruiz-Castaneda, Jennifer Smith, Kellie Montoya, Akexandra Moya,
Carmen Manrara, Gabriela Chamorro, Stephanie Hew, Natalia de la Maza,
Erika Bloch, Cristina Moreno, Olga Urbieta, Elizabeth Herald and Jenny
McNally.
We the People, established in 1987, is the country's foremost
program for educating the nation's youth about the meaning and value
of the United States Constitution. It is a project of the Center for
Civic Education and funded by the Department of Education as directed
by an act of Congress.
Under the program, students intensively study the Constitution and
Bill of Rights for six weeks, then compete in mock congressional
hearings to display.
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