Marancook student visits Maine State House before exchange trip to Germany

Eli Smith, a sophomore at Maranacook Community High School, shadowed Sen. Trey Stewart, R-Aroostook, at the Maine State House April 5 to learn more about Stewart’s work as a political leader and lawyer. Smith recently received a scholarship from the U.S. State Department to participate in the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange. He will spend his junior year in Germany, where he will meet with state department representatives and members of the German Bundestag to gain perspectives on global current affairs and German social, economic, and political life. While there, he will live with a host family and attending a German high school. (Submitted photo)