For 55 years, the third week in July has brought high school students from all over the state and country to the Louisiana Youth Seminar to develop as leaders and make lifelong bonds.
First, the program was held in Natchitoches, then Lafayette, and since 1987, in Baton Rouge.
This year, 300 teenagers wearing matching white T-shirts crammed into the 4-H Mini Barn on LSU’s campus to learn creative communication strategies and get to know each other. They cheered. They chanted…