The Georgia Department of Education has announced the students selected as Georgia’s delegates and alternates for the 2025 United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP). Vivian Reyes Martinez, a junior at Adairsville High School, is one of the two students who will join Senator Jon Ossoff and Senator Raphael Warnock in representing Georgia during the 63rd annual USSYP Washington Week, scheduled for March 1st through 8th.

In addition to the delegates, the Georgia DOE has selected two alternates for the 2025 program. Each year, the USSYP brings together the most outstanding high school students—two from each state, the District of Columbia, and the Department of Defense Education Activity—to Washington, D.C., for an intensive weeklong study of the federal government and its leaders.

During this week, student delegates will attend meetings and briefings with senators, the president, a Supreme Court justice, and leaders from various cabinet agencies. The program’s mission is to instill a deeper understanding of the American political process in each class of USSYP student delegates and to foster a lifelong commitment to public service.

Georgia’s delegates will be part of a 104-student delegation and receive a $10,000 college scholarship for undergraduate studies.

Vivian Reyes serves as the secretary of the junior class at Adairsville High School. She intends to focus on political science and Spanish studies in college and pursue a public service or nonprofit management career.