Alayjah Strong and Sarah Huitt will represent Hermitage High School at Arkansas Girls State May 25 - May 30, 2025, at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas. Alayjah is the daughter of Ashley Edington and Roderick Strong. Sarah is the daughter of Matt and Leslie Huitt. Arkansas Girls State delegates are chosen based on the following qualifications: leadership, character and honesty, scholarship, cooperativeness, community participation, and service.
Arkansas Girls State is a program designed to provide citizenship training for young women of high school age; afford them an opportunity to live together in fictional cities and counties as self-governing citizens; inform them about the duties, privileges, and participation in the functioning of their government; and help them grasp the meaning of some of the responsibilities which they must assume when they become adults. A special thanks to Mr. John Little and the American Legion of Warren for sponsoring Alayjah and Sarah to attend Arkansas Girls State.