Teen volunteers inspired by political campaign process

Although not eligible to vote, area teens from Bowie and Eleanor Roosevelt high schools and Howard Community College carved time out of their busy school and extracurricular schedules to be involved in the primary election campaign efforts for Shukoor Ahmed, a democratic candidate for Maryland House of Delegates.

Ahmed has also encouraged some of them to run for public office in the future. The teens used words such as "enlightened," "motivated" and "excited" to describe their experience during and after the campaign.