{"id":281859,"date":"2026-05-23T09:30:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T09:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/281859\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:30:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T09:30:44","slug":"ocoee-youth-council-now-accepting-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/281859\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocoee Youth Council now accepting applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h952267-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">The Ocoee Youth Council now are accepting applications for 2026-2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h952267-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">Members of the Ocoee Youth Council will participate in service events, explore scholarship opportunities and learn about local government and careers in public service.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h952267-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">Spaces are limited, and availability is on a first-come, first-served basis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h952267-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">Council members can be residents or non-residents of Ocoee, and the council is for students entering high school in private or public school.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h952267-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">Requirements to participate include parent approval, most recent report card, a teacher recommendation letter and the participant must have reliable transportation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h952267-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">The deadline for applications is 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 28.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h952267-p7\" class=\"permalinkable\">For more information and to download an application, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocoee.org\/599\/Ocoee-Youth-Council?fbclid=IwY2xjawR9qWJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFiOFM3TUN0RzU3MDV4WjA5c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHpHJYa7EClLecUrEpK1nIsNQGDswyE728dOCm3egnkE1szXsy8d0udjn5NTP_aem_hWYv2ac1Dw6jYM7EGoBlmw\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ocoee.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ocoee Youth Council now are accepting applications for 2026-2027.\u00a0 Members of the Ocoee Youth Council will participate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-281859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}