Delegates

Each year 250-300 high school students entering their junior or senior years attend the Louisiana Youth Seminar.  Established in 1971, LYS has impacted over 9000 students.  Students come to LYS via a variety of ways:  selected by their schools or community or corporate leaders, sent by their parents, recruited by past LYS delegates and by LYS friends and family.  The goal of LYS is to attract student leaders of all talents, interests and backgrounds.

At LYS, students are referred to as "delegates," as they represent their school and their community at the LYS experience.  At LYS, delegates are assigned to one of 14 "home groups," with other delegates from throughout the state.  Delegates live in LSU dorms for the week of LYS and room with others from their "home group."  Delegates cannot choose their roommates and cannot be in home groups with others that they know well.  

Each year, delegates represent between 65-80 high schools from throughout the state.  A partial listing of schools represented at LYS over the past several years is included below.  The listing is too large to include all schools. You can also view pictures of LYS delegates in action »

Lafayette High School
Notre Dame High School
Saint Scholastica Academy
Warren Easton
McDonough #35 Senior High School
Episcipal School of Acadiana
Mandeville High
University High School
Woodlawn High School
Academy of the Sacred Heart
Captain Shreve High School
St. Paul's School
Springhill High School
Bogalusa High School
Breaux Bridge High school
Benton High School
Louisiana School for Math, Since and the Arts
Mount Carmel Academy
Teurlings Catholic High School
Airline High School
Catholic High School of New Iberia
Comeaux High School
DeLaSalle High School
Parkview Baptist High School
Riverdale High School
St. Thomas More High School
East Ascension High School
Mount Carmel Academy
Patterson High School
Tioga High School
Crowley High School
Pope John Paul High School
St. Mary's Dominican
Dutchtown High School
Evangel High School
St. Joseph's Academy
Abbeville High School