{"id":3250,"date":"2015-12-26T11:04:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-26T16:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/?p=3250"},"modified":"2015-12-23T10:32:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T15:32:11","slug":"bicen-sweeps-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/?p=3250","title":{"rendered":"BICEN Sweeps the State"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3252\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/bicen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3252 size-medium\" title=\"Photo courtesy of Katie Boland\" src=\"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/bicen-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"This year's team members stand in front of the CCSU Social Sciences building where the competition took place.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/bicen-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/bicen.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This year&#8217;s team members stand in front of the CCSU Social Sciences building where the competition took place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kiki Yalamanchili &#8217;17<br \/>\n<em>EE<\/em> Senior Features Editor<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Major congratulations are in order for Ms. Boland and her We The People team, as they have once again been crowned Bicentennial State Champions on December 11th at Central Connecticut State University. This year, the team also swept the state in each individual unit category, making this class truly unique.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We The People is run by <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Civics First Connecticut, a non-profit association which conducts civics-related education programs and projects in Connecticut&#8217;s schools. Specifically, their We The People program was established to \u201cpromote civic competence and responsibility\u201d amongst all American students. The program has been run since 1987, and has educated over 28 million students during its lifetime.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What makes this team truly prosper is Ms. Boland\u2019s enduring efforts along with the students\u2019 hard work. Nikaash Pasnoori, a senior on the BICEN team, thinks that \u201cunder the careful guidance of ms. Boland, we {the class} have progress so much father than I thought we would.\u201d Winning the competition has reminded him of \u201chow far the class has come as a team,\u201d and is grateful to be a part of such a wonderful program here at Trumbull High School.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Night of the the Experts, an evening that simulates the actual competition, as well as trips to a prestigious law office in New York City have truly prepared these Trumbull High seniors for the actual competi<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tion. In addition, the class\u2019s tireless hours of perfecting their speeches and familiarizing themselves with every possible topic concerning their unit has brought Trumbull We the People to glory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Congrats, THS We The People! Trumbull High looks forward to seeing you sweep the country next.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiki Yalamanchili &#8217;17 EE Senior Features Editor Major congratulations are in order for Ms. Boland and her We The People team, as they have once again been crowned Bicentennial State Champions on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3253,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions\/3253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}