Dillingham's Sands reflects on representing Alaska at U.S. Senate youth program April 1st 2:56 pm | Isabelle Ross, KDLG News
Dillingham high school senior Sawyer Sands represented Alaska as a U.S. Senate Youth Program delegate this month. Alaska's other delegate was Nych?? Andrew of Anchorage. Normally, the program is held in Washington, D.C., and the students meet with a variety of national leaders. This year it was virtual. Sands said the program coordinators tried to make the experience as normal as possible, but the virtual conference had its challenges. "The Zoom calls - it was taxing," Sands said. "Probably 12 hours spent in front of the camera with intermittent breaks - sometimes not long enough. But you really can't overstate how well they tried to compensate us for that."