State Representative Kristina Daley Roegner (R-Hudson) today welcomed the winners of her “Become a Legislator for a Day” reading contest to the Ohio Statehouse.

Winning students were invited to come down to Columbus with their parents and spend a day at the Statehouse as a mock legislator. Events of the day included meeting the representative, a tour of the Statehouse, and participating in a mock legislative session, where students learned firsthand how a bill becomes a law.

Winners of the program are: Marie Comi, Abhinav Pratap, John Carbone, Vincent Carbone, Cristian Robinson, Nick Kudrin, Natalie Abdoo, Ben Baratrian, and Nicholas Baratian.

To participate in the program, children in grades 1-6 were encouraged to document five books they read on a bookmark and return the bookmark to a participating library. Winners were selected from each participating library, which included the Hudson Library, the Cuyahoga Falls Library and the Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library.