Local Students Bring Home Best Speaker Awards from Junior Statesmen Winter Congress

A delegation of six Virgin Islands high school students recently attended the Northeast Winter Congress of the Junior Statesmen Association (JSA) where they won two of the fourteen coveted Best Speaker Gavels, a recently issued press release has made known. Lailoni Canton of St. Joseph High School, Daniel Garriga-Cerni, Imani Evans and Crystal Fahie of Good Hope Country Day School, and Aaron Harris and Chelsea Valery of the St. Croix Educational Complex represented the territory at the Congress, which was held from February 24-26 in Washington, D.C.  This is the fifth year that students have traveled to Washington, DC to take part in the Congress.  More than 300 students attended the Northeast Winter Congress. Since 1934, the nonprofit Junior Statesmen Foundation and JSA has educated and prepared high school students to be active and responsible citizens, voters and leaders.  At the Northeast Winter Congress, the Virgin Islands delegation competed against students representing the Nort...