Seattle Youth Traffic Court Receives Honor

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The Seattle Youth Traffic Court was selected to receive one of the Inaugural Colleen Willoughby Youth Civic Education Awards on November 15, 2012, to be presented by the Seattle CityClub as part of the National Council for the Social Studies activities.

http://www.seattlecityclub.org/20121115

This Youth Court will also demonstrate with a live hearing the way that youth courts operate to an audience of educators on Saturday, 2:30 p.m. at the Washington State Convention Center.

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