But first, a hands on lesson in civics and government.

Meet some local high school students who competed in the statewide We the People Invitational.

It only takes around 2% of the population to prevent an amendment from passing.

Why is the citizen and the Constitution something that people should understand?

There's so much apathy, so much like a lack of young voters because people feel like they don't matter.

But when participating, we, the people, we learn that we matter and that we can advocate for ourselves.

That's the reason why I joined people, was because I felt that within like our great schools, education, the very beginning of our own government wasn't really satisfactory with what I believed in.

And so I joined a billion people together and further extensive knowledge on our government and as well as civics education.

We, the people, as a congressional hearing.

So what the students are doing is preparing for a congressional hearing where they're the expert.

So they prepare written testimony.

And I really take them through a process of editing that and making sure it's fine tuned.

The other part is the cross-examination, where they have to prepare for the questions that are going to be asked of them in that kind of Q&A, a follow up session.

We, the people have been in Nevada since 1987.

It is a wonderful program for providing communication skills, interview skills, research skills, writing literacy and the importance of our government.

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A lot of our university professors tell us that students who participate in we, the people, actually do better in college and life than students that do not participate.

And we we just competed in the state invitational for we the people, the Citizen and the Constitution.

We ended up placing fourth overall and we were the first the top placed team for Las Vegas.

Now that we the People is complete, we went through two competitions.

Was it what you were expecting?

Did you get like, what did you get out of it compared to like what you were expecting?

We the People has allowed me to collaborate with my peers and gain more knowledge and allow me to be more knowledgeable.

It definitely gave us gave me a more holistic experience on like what we can do to fix our government as well as like what needs to be done in order for us to fix our current institutions today.

Everyone in this room is the next generation of, you know, of leaders in this country and that that gives us adults a lot of hope.

The event is sponsored by the Nevada Center for Civic Engagement.

2023 was We, the People's 35th Y