INDIANAPOLIS - Allyson Ross recently served as an Indiana House Page during the 2008 session of the Indiana General Assembly.
As a page, students 13 years and older spend the day gaining a greater understanding about state government and how laws are made.
Paging is a valuable experience in which students take a backstage tour of the Statehouse and work alongside legislative assistants and interns. On session days, pages experience how a bill becomes a law as they watch legislators on the House floor debate issues. On committee days, the students witness where a bill receives first consideration and watch hearings where the public submits input.
Ross served as a page for Rep. Bill Ruppel. She is a seventh-grader at Tippecanoe Valley Middle School, Akron.
