WISCONSIN: Sukhmeet Kaur 16, a senior at Oak Creek High School was elected the Governor of Badger Girls state during the week of June 612, 93 in Madison, Wisconsin. She is elected to go to Girls Nation in Washington D.C. during the week of July 1724, 93 to meet U.S. President Clinton and to visit Pentagon and Capitol Hill.
The Badger Girls Program is set up to broaden women’s roles in politics and government thru “Learning by Doing” process.
Badger Girls state, sponsored jointly by the Wisconsin American Legion Auxiliary and the Department of Governmental Affairs of the University of Wisconsin, is a government inaction program. It is a special state in which its citizens (the girl’s state delegates) learn city, county and state government procedures by conducting the elections and business of those governmental bodies including making laws where fiction and reality become one.
Sukhmeet campaigned hard to run for governorship, she spoke on the women rights issues and won the primary by a land slide and finally she was voted in by the 740 delegates representing different schools of the state due to her strong performance in debates and spontaneous answers to tough scrutiny by the delegates. She also won $500 scholarship. She is the editor of the school newspaper and also in national honor society among many other extracurricular activities.
contributed by: Rajinder Singh Mago
Article extracted from this publication >> July 16, 1993
