RHS Senior is Selected for United States Senate Youth Program

RHS Senior is Selected for United States Senate Youth Program
December 9 2014
Ridgewood NJ, RHS senior Gabriel Voorhis-Allen has been selected as one of only two students to represent New Jersey as a delegate to the United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP). The event will be held in Washington, D.C. on March 7 – 14, 2015. Gabriel will also receive a $5,000 college scholarship for undergraduate studies, with encouragement to pursue coursework in history and political science.

The program, founded in 1962 through Senate Resolution, selects each year two of the highest achieving students from each state, the District of Columbia and the Department of Defense Education system overseas. Delegates are selected through an extremely competitive merit-based selection process held at the state departments of education nationwide.  The student leaders spend a week in Washington experiencing their national government in action. All transportation, hotel and meal expenses are provided by The Hearst Foundations.