Summer program to offer study of Supreme Court to Indy high schoolers
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A new summer program will give Indianapolis-area high school students an up-close look at the functions of the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court Historical Society and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana are teaming up to launch a program called “The Supreme Court and My Hometown.”
The weeklong program, offered from June 24 to 28, invites high schoolers to a day camp at the Birch Bayh Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse where Indianapolis-area justices, attorneys, professors and more will offer their insights on the U.S. Supreme Court through a localized lens.
The Indianapolis program will specifically study Hess v. Indiana, a 1973 First Amendment case that originated in Indiana courts following an IU undergraduate student’s arrest for his statements during a Vietnam War protest in 1970.
Students in the summer workshop will explore the Constitutional questions raised in the case as well as its procedural history and the Supreme Court’s role in deciding the case. Students will design an exhibit about the case as a capstone to their studies.
The exhibit will be displayed in the Federal Court Learning Center in the Birch Bayh Federal Building.