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'Extreme' Journey expands to high school
This summer for the first time, high school students can participate in the Extreme Journey Through Hallowed Ground. This summer immersion camp/trek/seminar/high-tech project has been available only to middle schoolers in the past.The two-week leadership immersion program will give high-school students a hands-on lesson in American heritage and leadership. Students will bike the C&O Canal, hike Harpers Ferry, canoe to Ball's Bluff and travel in time to Montpelier, Monticello, Ash Lawn-Highland and Dodona Manor. They will record the trials and triumphs of the Revolutionary period through the Civil War using video iPods and digital cameras to create a video documentary, or "vodcast," of their experience.
The Extreme Journey Through hallowed Ground Summer Camp for high school students is June 22 through July 3. Students can apply for a full scholarship of $1,000 at www.hallowedground.org . Non-scholarship applicants can apply through the University of Virgina. Applications are due Feb. 15.
The middle school Extreme Journey in Loudoun is scheduled for July. If the student were Clara Barton, how would he or she treat the wounded on the battlefield? Now the student is John Brown, planning the attack on Harpers Ferry. The pressure is on. Time to make decisions.
Campers' No. 1 goal, as they create original podcasts of the experience, is to explain the value of studying leadership and to explain how lessons of the past can be applied in the present.
Two 11th and 12th grade students will be brought on as interns for the middle school camps in Loudoun and in three other locations. For more information, contact education@jthg.org .
Call Lauren Searl at 703-999-7579 for details on all programs.
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