JTHG Extreme Journey Camps
Fascinating Educational Experiences for Students and Teachers
The Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership immersive camps that provide students and educators with authentic experiences as they learn about American history. These camp programs offer unique educational opportunities throughout the region known as Where America Happened™, from Gettysburg to Monticello. Learning the true scope of American history is more than memorizing dates and facts in a classroom. Personally visiting The Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area, equipped with expert historic insight, will allow students to develop their own opinions on key moments in America’s heritage.
Where Students Experience American History Like Never Before
Each summer The JTHG Partnership, together with school districts within our National Heritage Area, present the chance for rising 6th- through 8th-grade students to become "secret agents" and explore history in ways they never have before. Known as the Extreme Journey, this immersive two-week summer camp takes students to historic sites from Gettysburg to Monticello, where they hike, bike, canoe, and engage in hands-on activities led by expert interpreters. During each site visit, they investigate the shared qualities of some of this nation's greatest leaders in an attempt to answer the question: "What does leadership mean to me?" Using digital multimedia tools to document their own unique Extreme Journey, they create mini-movies that offer personal reflections on how past leadership lessons can be applied to the present.
2012 will mark the 7th year that the Journey Through Hallowed Ground has offered the camp in Albemarle and Loudoun Counties, VA. Attempts are underway to offer a camp in Adams County, PA and Washington County, MD as well. While these four would be day camps only, the Journey will, for the first time ever, sponsor an overnight camp in partnership with Woodberry Forest School in Madison, VA where campers will have even more time to explore leadership within our National Heritage Area.
Day and overnight camps are available. Email questions to education@jthg.org
Day Camps
The Extreme Journey Middle School Camp (both a day and overnight option are available) challenges participants to re-live the past and learn from choices made long ago. Presented with historical situations, participants will be asked to solve problems on their own and study the impact on our contemporary world.
Overnight Camp
It’s not just for day-campers anymore! For the first time, middle-school students nationwide or even from across the globe can experience our Extreme Journey Summer Camp. From July 8th -July 20th , kids from all over can experience history, heritage and camp like never before through our partnership with Woodberry Forest School in Orange County, Virginia.
