Young People\u2019s Continental Congress<\/a> will bring history to life over the next week. More than 50 students and their teachers will learn about the ideals and principles that played a part in the founding of the country.<\/p>\n\u201cTo hopefully help create the next generation of informed and thoughtful citizens,\u201d said Cathy Gorn, executive director of National History Day, the organization that runs the program.<\/p>\n
The student delegates will learn more about how the Second Continental Congress met to draft the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago, and they\u2019ll consider its meaning in today\u2019s America.<\/p>\n
While in Philly, students will visit museums and historic sites, as well as put together their own joint Declaration of Independence. They\u2019re calling it the Declaration of Aspirations of American Democracy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve already been working very hard since January,\u201d said Gorn. \u201cThey\u2019ve been reading and listening to webinars and doing a lot of studying.\u201d<\/p>\n
For high school junior Sophia Wick, marching to Carpenters\u2019 Hall while accompanied by a fife and band is an experience she will not soon forget.<\/p>\n
\u201cSuper exciting and an opportunity that I\u2019m super grateful for,\u201d she said. \u201cTo be able to talk to other peers who are interested in early American history is a super cool thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 High school students from dozens of states and territories are getting an up-close, hands-on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12360,20960,4158,227,94,13272,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-248012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-american-revolution","tag-declaration-of-independence","tag-democracy","tag-education","tag-history","tag-old-city","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}