Extreme Journey Through Hallowed
Ground Camp Registration Opens to Middle School Students
in Loudoun and Albemarle Counties, Va.
For Immediate Release
March 5, 2008
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Waterford, Virginia—This summer, the Journey Through Hallowed Ground
Partnership will bring the award-winning Extreme Journey Summer Camp
back to rising sixth through eighth graders in Loudoun and Albemarle Counties,
Va. The program is sponsored by The Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership
and partnering school systems. This is the third consecutive year that the
camp will be offered to Middle School students in Albemarle County and the
second year that the Partnership will work with Loudoun County Public Schools
to offer the camp to Loudoun students. This is the first year that the camp
will be available to students in Culpeper/Fauquier/Rappahannock Counties, Va.,
and Adams County, Pa.
This two-week summer program creates extreme day
trips combined with cutting-edge technology to allow each camper to step into
the boots of those who made our American history. Students hike, bike and paddle
with historians from Gettysburg National Military Park to James Monroe’s
Ash Lawn-Highland following the 175-mile Journey Through Hallowed Ground (JTHG).
Expert guides bring authenticity to the experience as they introduce campers
to the moments that created America.
While traveling, students record the trials and triumphs
and lessons of leadership from the Revolutionary period through the Civil War,
to the present day using state-of-the art video iPods and digital cameras to
create a video documentary, or "vodcast," journaling their experiences.
With limited time and supplies how would you treat the wounded on the
battlefield if you were Clara Barton? Or, if you were John
Brown, how would you respond to your trusted advisor, Frederick Douglass,
abandoning your plan to attack Harpers Ferry? Students answer these
and other historically-based questions in order to understand the diverse
roles leaders played along the Journey Through Hallowed Ground and to experience
the vision, courage and persistence that defined their success. Participants’ primary
goal as they work with this medium is to explain the value of studying leadership
and how lessons learned can be applied to their contemporary world.
The
programs are being headed by Angela Stokes, Director of Educational Programs
for the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership. Ms. Stokes said, “One
of our key goals with these programs is to build authentic experiences for
students. Traditional
classroom programs answer simple questions, but the historians that guide the
interactive programs along the Journey, transport participants back in time
and ask them to apply leadership skills as they think through complex decisions
that defined our nation. Ms. Stokes added, “ Students love this. They
enjoy being introduced to the complexities of situations, discussing the pros
and cons of an idea and being leaders and making choices.”
The Extreme Journey Through Hallowed Ground
Summer Camp will be held:
Loudoun County, Va.
June 30 – July 11, 2008
Tuition: $500
Registration: From March 17
Albemarle County, Va.
July 7 – July 18, 2008
Tuition: $650
Registration: From March 24
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