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Westfield High School Earns Top Awards at NJ Youth and Government Conference

The Westfield High School Youth and Government Club returned with an impressive array of awards, including Outstanding Delegation, from this year’s Conference held at the State House in Trenton April 4 - 6. More than 550 students from high schools across New Jersey participated in the program.

Samantha Gruskin, Alexa Derman, and Koryn Kraemer served as officers for the conference, having worked throughout the year to help organize and prepare to run the conference.

Outstanding Delegate awards were won by Margaret Meyo, Jonathan Kelly, Andrew Zale, and Frank Guerriero. Three of eight possible Outstanding Legislation Awards were earned by Jared Geoghan, Bryanna Reinhardt, and Ben Kelly. They were recognized for the quality of the bills they wrote for conference.

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Of the eight Premier Statesmen awards presented at the conference, both Andrew Zale and Frank Guerriero were recipients. In the Judiciary committee, the award for Premier First Year Delegate was given to Margaret Meyo. The Outstanding Executive Response Committee Delegate Award was given to Jonathan Kelly.  In addition, Frank Guerriero, Isabella Gelfand, Andrew Kuznetsov, Ed Dellarso, Jared Bansky and Maya Johnson passed bills at the conference.

Elected as officers for next year’s conference were Andrew Kuzetsov, Andrew Zale, Koryn Kraemer, Ed Dellarso, Frank Guerriero, and Bryanna Reinhard. 

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Selected to attend the Council on National Affairs (CONA) conference this summer in North Carolina were Alexa Derman, Isabella Gelfand, JD Kelly, and Frank Guerriero.  Ellie Smith, Jill Rosenfeld will serve as CONA alternates.

Westfield High School’s adviser to the 72 participating YAG members, English teacher David Della Fera, remarked, “Once again the members of the club demonstrated maturity, diligence and talent.”

The YAG conference is a three-day mock state legislature session, in which students fulfill various offices of state government, including: Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Cabinet; Senate and Assembly; Lobby Corps; State Judiciary; an Executive Response Committee; and Press Corps.

 

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