Yorktown High School competes in Citizen Bee, Gwosdz places 2nd

This past week, the 11th Grade Honors US History students at Yorktown High School competed in the Region 3 Citizen Bee contest in Victoria. The Texas Citizen Bee is a statewide civic education program and competition. Students use an online guide to prepare for a two-part competition. The Citizen Bee is maintained by Law Related Education, Inc. and the State Bar of Texas Law-Related Education Department and is funded by The Sumners Foundation. The purpose of the Sumners Foundation, named for 20th Century Congressman Hatton Sumners, is to encourage the study, teaching, and research into the science and art of self-government, to the end that the American people may understand the fundamental principles of democracy and be guided thereby in shaping governmental policies.

The Citizen Bee contest consists of two parts: a written test round and a verbal round. On March 28, Yorktown students Carleigh Boehm, Jaclyn Gwosdz, Tyler Lemke, Madison Morehead, Jennifer Reza, Connor Ruppert and Philip Yeretsky, competing against students from El Campo, Tidehaven and Yoakum, taking a 35-question multiple-choice test that covered Civic Values and Skills, Current Events, The Constitution, Documents and Supreme Court Cases and People/Events. The highest scoring ten students from the region would advance to the verbal round. Of the ten students advancing from Region 3, five – Gwosdz, Lemke, Morehead, Ruppert and Yeretsky were from Yorktown.

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