NWI students get prepared for civics-minded trip to DC

The 12 Northwest Indiana students selected to join the 900 other students from across the country for a weeklong government studies program in the nation’s capital all received black blazers and giant white winter coats emblazoned with the ECIER logo on them as parting gifts. The coats were given in the event the students were attending the Presidential Inauguration January 20, but they won’t get to go, ECIER Founder Chareice White said.