Do you know what amendment allowed 18 year old residents to vote in national elections? Do you know one of the original 13 states did not have representatives at the Constitutional Convention in 1787? Or how old a person needs to be to run and be elected to the United States Senate?
If you don’t know the answer to these questions, you are not alone. But on Nov. 23, nine students at Castle Heights Elementary School participated in a Constitution Bee, a question and answer competition sponsored by the Price Lions Club that proved many of them know a lot more about the document that determines law in our country more than any other.
Four judges sat and the spokesman asked the students a question each as they came to the podium. Several rounds of questions reduced the number to three.
In the final round two students missed their questions, while Linnea Nelson took home $75 for her right answer. Second place went to Kyler Gunderson who got $50 and third went to Jenna Richards, who won $25.
Castle Heights Principal Chris Winfree told the assembled parents and students how difficult some of the questions that had been asked were.
“I studied history in college and I couldn’t have answered a lot of those questions,” he said.
Then he handed out the money to the students who had big smiles on their faces.
This is the fifth year the Lions Club has sponsored the competition in local schools. Leonard Miller of the Lions said the club does it to make youngsters aware and appreciative of the U.S. Constitution.
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