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Are You Interested in Attending Michigan Girls State 2025?

The 2025 Michigan American Legion Auxiliary Girls State will be held on the Michigan State University Lansing Campus from June 22 to June 28, 2025. The program is available to high school juniors. You will participate after your junior year and heading into your senior year of school.

Are you ready to apply to reserve your spot? Click here to fill out the application

Will you pledge to sponsor a delegate to the 2025 Michigan American Legion Auxiliary Girls State program? Make your pledge here.

ALA Michigan Girls State was featured on Fox 2 Detroit on May 21, 2024. Check out the video below.

American Legion Auxiliary Michigan Girls State program is now recruiting students. It is a simulation of representation. What would American democracy look like in the hands of teenaged girls? The new documentary, Girls State, takes us inside the experiment of building a government from the ground up. The program here in Michigan is currently recruiting girls wrapping up the 11th grade.

By Erica Francis, Fox2Detroit.com
Posted May 21, 2024 7:52am EDT

Michigan Girl Stater to Receive a $5,000 Scholarship from The American Legion
LANSING (October 15, 2024)—On October 11, the American Legion National Office in Indianapolis, Indiana, announced the Samsung American Legion Scholarship recipients. Recipients are selected from high school juniors who attended American Legion Auxiliary Girls State or American Legion Boys State. Who are direct descendants (i.e., child, grandchild, great-grandchild, or legally adopted child) of a U.S. wartime veteran who served on active duty during one or more of the periods of war officially designated as eligibility dates for membership in The American Legion. Scholarship winners are selected based on academic record, involvement in school and community activities, community service, and financial need.
Nadia Grierson, a Ludington High School student sponsored by the Edwin H. Ewing American Legion Auxiliary Unit 76 in Ludington, was selected as a runner-up for the Central Region and will receive a $5,000 scholarship.
Nadia is the great-grandchild of First Lieutenant Louis C Odette. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps from December 4, 1943, to February 1, 1945. Read more here.

THINGS TO REVIEW BEFORE ATTENDING ALA GIRLS STATE

Michigan ALA Government Manual 2024

ALA Girls State Brochure

ALA Girls State 2025 Flyer

THINGS TO LEARN

ALA Girls State Pledge

ALA Girls State Song

FORMS

Sponsorship Guide

2025 Pledge to send delegates Form

Apply to Michigan Girls State 2025

Units Sponsor/Reserve Delegates Form 2025