(FRANKFORT, KY) – Ethan Cameron Morgan, a senior at Marshall County High School, has been selected to represent Kentucky at the 64th annual U.S. Senate Youth Program (USSYP) Washington Week, scheduled for March 7-14, 2026.
Morgan will join Sen. Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rand Paul in representing the Commonwealth as part of an elite 104-student national delegation. During the intensive week in Washington, D.C., he will attend meetings and briefings with senators, the president, a Supreme Court justice, cabinet agency leaders and other top government officials. As a delegate, Morgan will also receive a $10,000 college scholarship for undergraduate study.
A Leader Committed to Public Service
As Marshall County High School student council president, Morgan has demonstrated his commitment to creating real change through public service. He facilitates student grievances through tactful conversations and meetings with administration, coordinates weekly communications with council members, sets meeting agendas and writes and proposes bills for administrative adoption.
Beyond student council, Morgan serves as chair of the student delegates to the Marshall County Board of Education and vice president of the National Honor Society. His volunteer work includes serving as broadcaster, announcer and coach for Special Olympics, youth baseball camp and the Miracle League of Western Kentucky. He has also donated his time to the Salvation Army, a soup kitchen, a coat drive and cemetery restoration projects.
A Governor’s Scholar and member of his school’s Gifted and Talented Program with a leadership designation, Morgan is also a Sandra Day O’Connor Institute for American Democracy ambassador, senior delegate of the Marshall County High School Media Arts Advisory Council and student news anchor at West Kentucky Community and Technical College. He also plays baseball for his school.
Plans for the Future
Morgan has been accepted to the Honors College at Murray State University. Following his undergraduate degree, he plans to attend law school to prepare for a career in public service or the media.
About the Program
The U.S. Senate Youth Program, created by Senate Resolution 324 in 1962, is sponsored by the Senate and fully funded by The Hearst Foundations. This extremely competitive merit-based program brings the nation’s most outstanding high school students to Washington for an intensive weeklong study of the federal government and its leaders. No government funds are utilized.
Each year, two exceptional high school students from each state, the District of Columbia and the Department of Defense Education Activity are selected for the program. Delegates and alternates are chosen by state departments of education after nomination by teachers and principals.
Joining Morgan as Kentucky’s other delegate is Patrick Bogdan Graboviy, a junior at North Oldham High School (Oldham County). Selected as alternates were Ayesha Zulfigar Hamid of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School (Fayette County) and Joel Daniel Shalom of duPont Manual High School (Jefferson County).
For questions about Kentucky’s delegates, alternates or state selection process, contact Rosalind Turner. For general information about the U.S. Senate Youth Program, email Program Director Wendy Wilk or call (800) 425-3632.
