Villa Madonna Academy's
Kentucky Youth Association
The Kentucky YMCA Youth Association is a YMCA with a unique and single-minded purpose: to serve Kentucky's teens. To accomplish this purpose, the Kentucky YMCA engages young people across the state in Teen Service Student YMCAs, Peer Mentoring Programs, Youth & Government Conferences, Character Development Camps, United Nations Assemblies, and Service Mission Trips. Currently, the Kentucky YMCA serves over 6,000 teens in 150 Student YMCAs in every area of the state.
KYA, Junior and Senior Program
Meets every Tuesday in Ms. Mitchell's room from 3:00-4:00
Sponsers: Ms. Mitchell and Mr. Tilley
The Kentucky Youth Assembly is a Youth in Government program designed to provide hands-on experience in the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of government. The overall goal of the conference is to teach the mechanics of government and to impress upon students the importance of active participation to the success of a democracy. Fundamentally KYA exists because Democracy must be learned by each generation. For three days, students play the various roles integral to the operation of a state government, including state representative, senator, member of the press, Supreme Court justice, Governor, and more. Each of these roles has specific and important functions without which the conference could not function. More about specific student responsibilities is available in the section on delegate roles. Over the years new programs have been designed to better serve the conference's role of engaging students in meaningful dialogue about contemporary problems and solutions.
For more information please visit, http://www.kyymca.org
KYA Dates:
Junior Program: November 19-21
Senior Program: December 3-5
KUNA
KUNA is a three-day experience in diplomacy that provides students and adult leaders with a greater appreciation for our global community through hands-on involvement with international issues and solutions. The conference is geared toward developing students’ international consciousness through role-play as they represent one of the members of the United Nations.
KUNA Dates:
Junior Program: February 28-March 2, 2010
Senior Program: March 21-23, 2010
Participation Requirements for KYA and KUNA, Junior and Senior Program
A student must
- have a C average from 4th quarter of the 08-09 school year
- attend all meetings or speak to Ms. Mitchell or Mr. Tilly before the meeting
- write your own bill that would be debatable at the state level (You may have a partner)
- attend fundraising events
- have a B in conduct at mid-term of the first trimester
- turn in all money and forms by the due date
Cost: $220.00 (Includes two nights in a hotel, two meals, transportation to and from Frankfort)
Food: Bring about $25 to cover all other meals
Misc: You can purchase t-shirts, Dvds, and late-night pizza for $10-$15
KYA 2009
8 Villa Madonna high school students represented the school at the Senior KYA Conference Louisville, KY November 22 -24, 2008. Over the three-day conference students ranked and debated legislation at the state level.
On Monday, the entire conference went to Frankfort for a four -hour debate session in the house and senate of Kentucky's state capitol. Villa submitted one bill, an act to allow the construction of nuclear power plants in the state of Kentucky. It was highly ranked and selected for debate at the capitol.
On the final day of the conference, our bill author team of Sean Freeman, Corrie Martin, Jillian Grosser, and Rachel Paxton received the award for Outstanding Premiere Bill. The award is given to one bill that is constitutionally sound, debatable, and feasible and is submitted by a freshman or a sophomore. Other students in attendance were Zack Rightmire, who worked on the press corp., and Alicia Helfrich, Owen Weber, and Sarah Mustian who served as legislators.
Congratulations to these students for their excellent work, award, and representation of our school!