by David Trevaskis | Aug 6, 2024 | LEAP, LEAP in Action
LEAP LRE trainer and North Allegheny High School teacher George Sagan with then Pennsylvania State Senator and future United States Congresswoman Melissa Hart with North Allegheny students discussing how laws are made, circa 1993. The students were lobbying for a bill...
by David Trevaskis | Jul 28, 2024 | LEAP, Training
The team from Pleasant Valley School District attending the first LEAP statewide leadership conference at the old Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in the fall of 1985.
by David Trevaskis | Jul 26, 2024 | LEAP, LEAP in Action
The boys of LEAP, circa 1994…Left to right, the late David Vanderhoof, LEAP Scholar in Residence in the early 1990s, a Pennsylvania mock trial author before taking a teaching position at UNC–Penrose where he helped bring the national high school mock trial finals to...
by David Trevaskis | Jul 26, 2024 | LEAP, Training
This is a nice shot of the 1990 Illinois LRE training team, probably at a Chicago hotel. Later, the Constitutional Rights Foundation—Chicago run program would be held at the Hilton Hotel attached to Hamburger University, the McDonald site that came to be used for its...
by David Trevaskis | Jul 25, 2024 | LEAP, Mock Trial
Abington Heights, the 2024 Pennsylvania Mock Trial Team, won the national competition this spring. They won a trip to the White House. In the President Biden photo: From L. to R. Amy Kelly - Teacher/Coach, Daniel E. Cummins, Esq. - Attorney Advisor, Zachary Riggall,...
by David Trevaskis | Jul 25, 2024 | LEAP, LEAP in Action
LEAP staffer David Keller Trevaskis (on left) with PCSS President Steve Bullick ( on right) honoring LEAP trainers George and Debbie Sagan from North Allegheny School District. They are being honored for work done with North Allegheny students on a bill ( it failed...
