<li>(Editor's note: Chesterfield County Public Schools, the University of Virginia Center for Politics, and The Times-Dispatch worked together to present two presidential forums last month at Cosby High School in Chesterfield County. The goal was to educate students about the two presidential tickets -- and excite them about the privileges and responsibilities of becoming lifelong voters. The early returns are in.)

Cosby High School in Chesterfield performed a great service to students this month: It introduced them to the excitement and responsibility that arrive with voting age.

Terry McAuliffe told students at Cosby High School in Chesterfield yesterday that Sen. Barack Obama would invest in infrastructure and alternative energy to create jobs and get the country moving again.

Former Gov. and U.S. Sen. George Allen told a presidential campaign forum at a Chesterfield County high school yesterday that energy is the No. 1 problem facing this country.

This fall, the presidential campaign will come to the government classrooms at Cosby High School in an unusual and exciting way. On Sept. 17, almost 400 government students will converge upon the school's auditorium to meet up with their teacher for the day, George Allen. Virginia's former governor and senator will be joined onstage by 20 students whose carefully crafted questions about John McCain's platform have been chosen in a selective process.

Former Sen. George Allen and former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe will represent their parties' presidential candidates at two upcoming student forums hosted by Cosby High School in Chesterfield County.