DUE TO INCLEMENT weather that kept one team from participating in the first round of the We the People...the Citizen and the Constitution competition Dec. 16, an additional round of presentations will be conducted on the morning of Jan.10 with two finalists competing in the afternoon.

Six teams from Laconia High School (which entered three teams), Gorham Middle High School, Milford High School and Nashua North High School were scheduled to participate in the first round of competition of We the People, a program of the NH Bar's Law-Related Education Department. Through the We the People program, teachers and students work together learning the history and principles of the U.S. Constitution, then students put their newfound knowledge to the test by debating a variety of constitutional issues in a mock congressional hearing.

Snowy conditions prevented students from Nashua (last year's We the People state champions) from making it to the first round of competition at the Legislative Office Building in Concord, however. To allow the Nashua North team to participate, the final round of competition will take on a different format, with all teams presenting in the morning and two finalists vying for the state title in the afternoon. Typically, four finalists compete during the final round.

The state We the People champion is eligible to compete at the national We the People championship in Washington, D.C., this spring.

We the People, sponsored by the New Hampshire Bar Association, is in its 16th year in New Hampshire. In the competition, students, working as a team, make presentations that explore, explain and apply principles of the U.S. Constitution to modern-day situations. A panel of scoring judges drawn from the judiciary, legal profession, government, education and the news media evaluates their efforts. After their presentations, students must then answer challenging follow-up questions posed by the judges.

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