Model Senate

Model Senate 2019

Photo ID; not in any order
Model Senate Delegation 2019
Ali, Maddie, Borsari, Sam , Burke, Mallory , DeLucia, Nick, Detch, Victoria, DiCenzo, Danielle, Dickmann, Jared, Dunbar, Cameron, Hobaica, Lauren, Kearney, Jared, Keohane, Sara, Melhem, Amr, O’Sullivan, Jimmy, Pangrekar, Nilay, Pohlman, Daniel, Quitzau, Emily, Reith, Dan, Robinson, Sean, Sakhalkar, Yash, Schlosser, Ethan, Shahood, Mia, Southwood, Bella, Terry, Owen

Model Senate 2019

The 51st annual Mansfield Model Senate was held March 22nd in the Mansfield High School Media Center. 24 delegates vigorously debated 9 bills. Model Senate is a unique part of the Mansfield High School Social Studies curriculum. This program exposes students to the legislative process and provides them with the opportunity to legislate in both school-wide and regional meets. Every junior is responsible for creating, researching, and defending a bill. One bill is then chosen by each class to attend the Mansfield Model Senate. The Mansfield Model Senate then chooses delegates to represent Mansfield High School at the Hockomock League Model Senate that will be held at Oliver Ames High School on April 8th and 9th. Students will compete against other teams from nine member schools.

Top 3 Bills, (not in any order)

Federal decriminalization of marijuana
DeLucia, Nick, Pangrekar, Nilay, Sakhalkar, Yash, Schlosser, Ethan

Reinstating net neutrality
O’Sullivan, Jimmy, Pohlman, Daniel

Paid maternity/paternity leave
Quitzau, Emily, Borsari, Sam

Model Senate 2018

2018 Participants

The 50th annual Mansfield Model Senate was held March 23rd in the Mansfield High School Media Center. 24 delegates vigorously debated 10 bills that covered topics such as: Electoral College reform, tax reform, fireamrs, euthanasia and drunk driving.

Model Senate is a unique part of the Mansfield High School Social Studies curriculum. This program exposes students to the legislative process and provides them with the opportunity to legislate in both school-wide and regional meets. Every junior is responsible for creating, researching, and defending a bill. One bill is then chosen by each class to attend the Mansfield Model Senate.

The Mansfield Model Senate then chooses 20 delegates to represent Mansfield High School at the Hocomock League Model Senate that will be held at Attleboro High School on April 9th and 10th. Students will compete against other teams from nine member schools.

Model Senate is the only non-athletic competition in the Hockomock League and has met every year since 1968.

Winners;

Mandated curriculum for child abuse and self-defense

DiMarino, Molly
Kessler, Mandy

National standards for gun ownership

Serena Dunlap

Hockomock Model Senate Delegation 2018
Bovey, Emma
Brill-Cass, Ethan
Brown, Nicole
Crugnale, Sophia
Dardinski, Katie
DeMassi, Catalina
DiMarino, Molly
Dooling, Thomas
Dunlap, Serena
Filaccio, Julia
Garieri, Sabrina
Hettiarachchi, Savi
Isaacson, Samuel
Kessler, Mandy
Longley, Eric
McCarthy, Caitlin
Murley, Kevin
O’Connell, Sean
Odayappan, Setthu
Penney, Nicole
Pisani, Amber
Plante, Zoe
Smith, Emily
Tajchman, Jacob

Photos from the event

Model Senate 2016

Hi-rez photos

The 48th annual Mansfield Model Senate was held March 30th in the Mansfield High School Media Center. 25 delegates vigorously debated 10 bills that covered topics such as: student loans, school start times, physician assisted suicide, police brutality, and gender neutral bathrooms.

Model Senate is a unique part of the Mansfield High School Social Studies curriculum. This program exposes students to the legislative process and provides them with the opportunity to legislate in both school-wide and regional meets. Every junior is responsible for creating, researching, and defending a bill. One bill is then chosen by each class to attend the Mansfield Model Senate. The Mansfield Model Senate then chooses 20 delegates to represent Mansfield High School at the Hocomock League Model Senate that will be held at Foxborough High School on April 12th and 13th. Students will compete against other teams from nine member schools. Model Senate is the only non-athletic competition in the Hockomock League and has met every year since 1968.