Bradwell Institute students involved in the ENGAGE club took top honors in the National Security Academy and Local Government Academy at the Georgia Center for Civic Engagement’s Youth in Government Expo.
Bradwell Institute student Logan Tenorio took on the role of the Attorney General and Ethan Griffith took on the role of Director of National Intelligence in a series of simulations in the National Security Academy that took place over three days. In his role as Attorney General, Tenorio served as the legal representative for the United States in both foreign and domestic matters. As Director of National Intelligence, Griffith served as head of the 17 agencies and organizations that gather and analyze intelligence to help policymakers formulate and implement U.S. foreign policy. Simulations covered issues involving Afghanistan and cybersecurity.
Bradwell Institute senior Briana Battle took part in the Local Government Academy and took on the role of Public Works Director. In this role, Battle provided advice as to the planning, organization, and operational priorities of services that cities provide such as roads, engineering, environmental management, solid waste, fleet maintenance, streetlights, building and grounds management, and stormwater management. Battle’s group participated in simulations involving diabetes management and a forest fire.
Many other students took part in the Expo’s Model UN program where they served as ambassadors of countries they had selected and researched and presented resolutions to gathered representatives of United Nation representatives. Model UN students also heard from Holocaust survivor Hershel Greenblat, whose parents were part of the resistance against the Nazis and later the Russians in modern day Ukraine.
Students in the Academy programs heard from Woodstock Mayor Michael Crawford. Crawford, an alumnus of the Georgia Center for Civic Engagement’s Youth Assembly and Model United Nations programs, is the 31st Mayor of Woodstock and previously served as the youngest state legislator in the U.S. in Georgia’s General Assembly. A gubernatorial appointee to the Georgia Technology Authority and vice chairman of the Atlanta Regional Commission, Caldwell offered insights in serving in public office to students aspiring to such roles.
ENGAGE is a career and technical student organization associated with the Government and Public Administration career pathway offered at Bradwell Institute and has more than 30 members.
The Georgia Center for Civic Engagement serves more than 20,000 youth and educators annually through leadership, character, and civic education programs and resources.
