On a summer weekend full of festivals and World Cup parties, the auditorium at the Kansas Leadership Center buzzed because of something historic. The downtown Wichita auditorium managed to gather a room full of middle schoolers for a day dedicated to government.
That wasn’t the historic part, though.
The students gathered for the opportunity to represent the Sunflower State in the first truly national Civics Bee. This fall, one student from each of the 50 states will travel to Washington, D.C., to compete in the National Civics Bee…