@summer.youth.institute

The Summer Youth Institute (SYI) is open to students

who will enter the 8th, 9th, or 10th grade next fall.

Enrollment is limited to 20 students who live

and go to school in the City of Milwaukee.

SYI is free to all selected students.

APPLY ONLINE TODAY!

Applications are due March 31.

Marquette University

Law School

For more information call:

414-288-7924

Or visit our website:

law.marquette.edu

In collaboration with Just the Beginning Foundation, Johnson Controls,

the Association of Corporate Counsel Wisconsin Chapter,

and Kids, Courts & Citizenship

Learn what it

takes to become

a lawyer

Explore

careers in the

legal system

Develop contacts

with legal

professionals

and mentors

Discover the

legal system and

how it works

Gain insight into

college and the

university

Marquette University Law School

and Eastern District of Wisconsin Bar Association

JULY 20-21 & 24-28, 2017

SUMMER YOUTH

INSTITUTE

SYI 2016 - Our Best Year Yet

Twenty-three students from eleven Milwaukee schools

participated in the 2016 Marquette Law School and

Eastern District of Wisconsin Bar Association Summer

Youth Institute (SYI). The SYI is designed to introduce

middle and high school students from the City of

Milwaukee to the legal system, expose them to careers

in law, and provide them with practical tools for their

educational goals.

During the seven day program, in addition to

having several guest speakers, the SYI 2016 class

visited the federal courthouse, the Milwaukee

County Courthouse, Harley-Davidson,

Robert W. Baird, and Foley & Lardner.

SYI students are invited to participate in the Honorable

Charles N. Clevert, Jr.. Mentoring Program. Students

met their mentors during the luncheon program on the

first day of the Institute and stayed in touch throughout

the program and beyond. Mentors are attorneys of the

Eastern District of Wisconsin Bar Association who are

willing to share experiences and advice, as well as help

students to explore the legal profession. “My favorite part of the day was

meeting my mentor!”

from left to right: Lauren Goins (St. Marcus Lutheran), Veronica Salinas (Notre Dame Middle School),

Her Pao Lee (Marquette University High School), Taylor Dye (Wisconsin Conservatory of Lifelong

Learning) and Maya Rodriguez (Divine Savior Holy Angels High School)

“I found it interesting to sit in on cases.”

Bringing the City of Milwaukee together!

To date, SYI has graduated a total of 90+ Milwaukee students

representing the following local schools:

Anna Doerfler Elementary School

Barack Obama School of Career

and Technical Education

Bay View High School

Business and Economics

Academy of Milwaukee

Carmen High School of

Science and Technology

Catholic East Elementary

Christ King Elementary School

Clarke Street School

Clement Avenue School

Darrell Lynn Hines Academy

Divine Savior Holy Angels

Downtown Montessori Academy

Eastbrook Academy

Garden Homes Lutheran School

Fernwood Montessori

F.J. Gaenslen School

Golda Meir School

Hmong American Peace Academy

Hope Christian High School

Manitoba Elementary School

Marquette University High School

Messmer Preparatory Catholic School

Messmer High School

Milwaukee Collegiate Academy

Milwaukee High School of the Arts

Milwaukee Lutheran High School

Milwaukee School of Languages

Morse-Marshall Middle School

New Testament Christian Academy

Pius XI High School

Pulaski High School

Ronald W. Reagan IB High School

Riverside University High School

River Trail Elementary School

Rufus King Middle School

Rufus King High School

St. Thomas Moore High School

St. Marcus Lutheran School

Tamarack Waldorf School

Urban Day School

Veritas High School

Vieau Public School

Wedgewood Park

International School

Wisconsin Conservatory of Lifelong Learning

Wisconsin Lutheran School

Woodlands School

Class of 2016 with Honorable Carl Ashley

Honorable Charles N. Clevert Jr. Internship Program

To continue to nurture the interest in careers in law, the Eastern District of Wisconsin Bar Association places

graduates of SYI in a full-time, four-week internship program in participating law firms, government

agencies, non-profits, corporations and judicial chambers. Upon completion of the internship, students

receive a scholarship. Since its launch in 2014, 50 SYI graduates have completed the internship program.

We thank the following firms and agencies who sponsored and hosted Clevert Interns in 2016:

Andrus Intellectual Property Law

Biskupic & Jacobs

Chambers of Magistrate

Judge Nancy Joseph

Davis & Kuelthau

Federal Defender

Services of Wisconsin

Foley & Lardner

Gass Weber Mullins

Gimbel, Reilly, Guerin & Brown

Godfrey & Kahn

Husch Blackwell

Kerkman & Dunn

Kravit, Hovel & Krawczyk

Mastantuono & Coffee

Michael Best & Friedrich

Pia Anderson Dorius Reynard & Moss

Quarles & Brady

Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren

Robert W. Baird

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Clerk's Office

U.S. Courthouse Library

U.S. District Court Clerk's Office

U.S. Probation Office

von Briesen & Roper

We congratulate the following alumni of our inaugural class, SYI 2012, heading to college this fall:

Mireille Padilla (Lawrence University), Shyanne Pryor (University of Notre Dame),

Quniterio Wright (UW-Oshkosh), and Lisa Xiong (UW-Madison)