Thursday

2025 Program Schedule



Activity

Time

Location


6:30 a.m.
 

Breakfast with your City

Dorm Area Cafeteria


County Party Convention

  1. General Election Speeches for County Offices

8:30 a.m.

You will be taken to your County Convention Meeting Room by your City Counselors


9:50 a.m.

District Party Convention

  1. General Election Speeches for District Offices

You will be taken to your District Convention Meeting Room by your City Counselors


General Assembly - Ballot check and coordinate afternoon schedule

11:00 a.m.

You will be taken to your meeting location by your City Counselors


11:30 a.m. for one party; 12:00 p.m. for the other party

Lunch with Party members from your City

Dorm Area Cafeteria


1:00 p.m.

District Party Convention (4 Districts) - General Election speeches for State Offices

  1. General Election speeches for State Officers; County Chairmen (all 16) co-preside and State Party office candidates from the ballot rotate into various meetings as scheduled by counselors

You will be taken to your District Convention Meeting Room by your City Counselors


District Party Convention continues — State Party office candidates rotate to give speeches

2:00 p.m.


3:00 p.m.

District Party Convention continues — State Party office candidates rotate to give speeches


4:00 p.m.

District Party Convention continues — State Party office candidates rotate to give speeches


5:15 p.m.

City Mayors Meeting

You will be taken to the meeting room by your Counselors


5:30 p.m. for half of the Cities; 6:00 p.m. for the other half of the Cities

1/2 Boys State Cities have dinner with your City and the other half of Boys State Cities hostin Visiting Dignitaries — follow schedule

30 min later:
1/2 Boys State Cities have dinner with your City and the other half of Boys State Cities hostin Visiting Dignitaries — follow schedule

You will be take to the meeting room and Cafeteria by your City Counselors


7:15 p.m.

Change into recreation clothes (including the Boys State t-shirt) that are appropriate for the Olympiad and associated evening activities

Dorm area


7:45 p.m.

Recreation Period begins — All Statesmen will be involved in 1 or more of 3 different activity categories:

  1. City Olympiad - these are semi-final and final tournament games in Basketball, Dodgeball, and Speedball as well as Texas Boys State Tug of War competition

  2. Boys State Band

  3. Family Feud competition

You will be taken to the appropriate location by your CIty Counselors for all of these events

Olympiad activities will take place at Clark Field

Band meets in the Band Hall

Counselors will take individuals to the meeting room


7:45 p.m.

Precinct Chairman to report to Election Locations

  1. Precinct Chairmen sign up for shift for overseeing General Election and will preside at Election and explain procedures

Election Location to be announced


8:00 p.m.

General Election Polls Open

Election Location


9:00 p.m.

General Election Polls close

Election Location


9:30 p.m.

Post Election Results Celebration event

You will be taken to the appropriate location by your City Counselors


11:15 p.m.

Lights out