Extreme Journey Middle School Camp

Canoeing the Potomac		Capturing history		Riding through Gettysburg

Visit this page in October to learn about details for 2011 camps.

Experience Your Own Journey Through Hallowed Ground

This two-week summer program takes rising sixth through eighth grade students on an experience through The Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area like never before.

Walking in the boots of the men and women who shaped this nation’s ideals and facing similar decisions as many past leaders, Extreme Journey campers visit the country’s most historic and hallowed grounds while using the latest multimedia technology to document their journey and experience history through another lens — their own.

History is more than textbooks. In Extreme Journey, campers are led by trained guides and impassioned historians for an authentic experience through the region known as Where America Happened, from Monticello to Gettysburg.

Participants are introduced to more than the dates of historical events found in a classroom. Instead, themed day trips offer hiking, biking, paddling and a chance to investigate many critical decisions that past leaders faced at the very same historic locations.

Students will tap into their creative energy to produce an original mini-movie or Vodcast to help them reflect on their historic journey, provide their perspective on our nation’s history, and explore how past leadership lessons can be applied to our contemporary world. History is now seen through their eyes.

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