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Winning Essay |
Washington
Workshops Congressional Seminar Essay Contest
This is a
major project of The Society held under the auspices of the Washington Workshops
Foundation, a private nonprofit educational program in American government for
high school students. Winners of an annual national essay contest
sponsored by The NSCDA are sent to Washington, D.C. for a week of
citizenship education about the national government.
In 2007, 72 students were sponsored by the Dames.
Read
about their experiences in their own words. A
letter from one student or
comments from a number of students. |
2007 Washington Workshops Congressional Seminar
Students at Dumbarton House, Headquarters of
The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America |
| The essay topic
for
2007 was
"What influence and impact do the media
have on each of the three branches of government in the United States
today?" Read two winning essays:
A or B.
The topic for 2008 is "If you were a
presidential candidate, what domestic issue would you consider most
important and what would you do about it?"
Information sheet for 2008 and
application for 2008.
For more information on the Washington Workshops, go to
http://www.workshops.org.
For more information from The NSCDA National Consultant for
this project, contact
DotsMcL@aol.com |
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