Congratulations to Homestead’s We the People 2024 Regional Unit Award Winners.

We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution is a comprehensive curriculum for high school students covering the history and principles of constitutional democracy in the United States.

The program culminates with simulated congressional hearings where students testify before a panel of community representatives acting as a congressional committee. Students then answer follow-up questions posed by the committee members and get to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of constitutional principles. Awards are given to the groups based on their presentation and their ability to support their positions with historical facts and case law.

Homestead students Joe Altier, Lucy Carender, Raymond Cisco, Eli Dornte, Aiden McCawley, Maeve Ohlinger, Evan Rumschlag, and Maxwell Zandarski won this year’s awards for their presentation and discussion of Unit 2: How Did the Framers Create the Constitution? and Unit 6: What Challenges Might Face American Constitutional Democracy in the Twenty-first Century?