{"id":963,"date":"2026-10-16T00:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T00:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nylegion1009.org\/?p=963"},"modified":"2026-10-16T00:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T00:36:08","slug":"school-call-student-open-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nylegion1009.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/16\/school-call-student-open-house\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;School Call&#8217; Student Open House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our Yorktown Post #1009 will hold a <strong>\u201cSchool Call \u2013 Student Open House\u201d at our Post Hall on Sunday, October 25, 2026, at 1 PM<\/strong> where we will explain three important educational programs for high school students &#8211; Boys State program, Empire Girls State program, and the American Legion High School Scholarship program &#8211; A Constitutions Speech Program. We will introduce students and their families to these programs and discuss the requirement to take part in them. Past attendees of these programs will be on hand to talk about their experiences attending the programs. This event is open to the public and all are welcome to come and learn about these educational civic programs. If you have any questions about these programs, please feel free to reach out to our Post at the below email. &nbsp;We have attached links to the web pages for all three programs below for you to refer to for additional information.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<strong>Boys State program<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/nylegion.net\/boys-state\/\">Boys\u2019 State \u00ab The American Legion Department of New York<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<strong>Empire Girls State program<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deptny.org\/?page_id=13205\">American Legion Auxiliary Empire Girls State<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<strong>National Oratorical Contest<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legion.org\/get-involved\/youth-programs\/oratorical-contest\">Oratorical Contest | The American Legion\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Yorktown Post #1009 will hold a \u201cSchool Call \u2013 Student Open House\u201d at our Post Hall on Sunday, October 25, 2026, at 1 PM where we will explain three important educational programs for high school students &#8211; Boys State program, Empire Girls State program, and the American Legion High School Scholarship program &#8211; A Constitutions Speech Program. We will introduce students and their families to these programs and discuss the requirement to take part in them. Past attendees of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nylegion1009.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/16\/school-call-student-open-house\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;School Call&#8217; Student Open House&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylegion1009.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylegion1009.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylegion1009.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylegion1009.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylegion1009.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nylegion1009.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/nylegion1009.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylegion1009.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylegion1009.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylegion1009.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}