Youth Programs

Students Inside Albany  Students Inside Albany (SIA) is a conference sponsored by the League of Women Voters of New York State Education Foundation, Inc. The program is designed to increase students’ awareness of their responsibility in representative government and provide the tools necessary for meeting that responsibility. 

• Click here for 2012 Recruitment Brochure

What the experience is like:

• TC Teen's View of Albany
• TC Student Immersed in State Government

Electing the President supplement put out by LWVUS and NIE (Newspapers In Education).

• Electing the President (Large file. Be patient.)

Vote 18 Vote 18 is an interactive game taught at high schools during one class period. It teaches students the history of voting, makes it relevant in their lives, and engages them in the world of politics. www.vote18.org

TAKE ME TO VOTE! is a project of the League of Women Voters of Tompkins County (LWV-TC) and is coordinated with the Tompkins County Board of Elections. We hope you will participate and encourage your child’s participation in this early lesson in citizenship!

Goals

• To have adults take their children/”future voters” with them to the polls and demonstrate the importance of active, informed participation in government by voting
• To prepare children for the rights and responsibilities of citizenship through direct experience with the voting process.
• To encourage voter turnout on Election Day

  Click here for brochure.