Career advice from the president
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Iman Fears was one of two teens chosen from Minnesota to attend the U.S. Senate Youth Program. She spent a week in Washington D.C. in early March 2010 conducting interviews and recording her thoughts in an audio diary. Fears, 15, is a junior at the St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists.
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Iman Fears was one of two teens chosen from Minnesota to attend the U.S. Senate Youth Program. She spent a week in Washington D.C. in early March 2010 conducting interviews and recording her thoughts in an audio diary. Fears, 15, is a junior at the St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists.
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INTRO:While political pundits and talking heads like to blast Washington for its inside-the-beltway deal-making, a 15-year-old from Minnesota got a chance to see the nation's capitol for its power and pageantry.
Iman (ih-MAHN) Fears is a junior at the St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists. She was chosen to be one of two delegates from Minnesota to the U.S. Senate Youth Program. On the itinerary? A visit with a Supreme Court Justice and the President himself.
Fears set out for Washington with a recording kit from MPR News to record interviews and her own thoughts on the trip. Here is her Youth Radio story:
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