Extreme Journey Through Hallowed Ground Summer Camp Kicks-off Registration for Albemarle County with Scholarships Available

For Immediate Release  
March 12, 2009
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Waterford, Virginia — Registration for Extreme Journey Through Hallowed Ground Summer Camp is now open for Albemarle County, VA middle school students interested in using modern-day technology and on-site experiences to discover critical historic events in the nation’s most historic region – The Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area.

The non-profit JTHG Partnership has funded a limited number of scholarships to ensure that the cost set by each school system is not a barrier for interested youth. Registration is also open in Adams County, PA and expected to open in Loudoun County, VA, next week.

In this two-week program, students explore the region known as Where America Happened like few others have. Hiking, biking, paddling, role playing, and movie making -- all are part of our Extreme Journey.

Students visit critically important historic sites from Gettysburg to Monticello, where they view life through a different lens and get the inside scoop from the experts. Archaeologists, authors, Park Rangers, reenactors as well as multimedia specialists share their passion and expertise, taking students back in time, into the mind set of men and women during a crucial time in our nation’s history. Students evaluate the roles of former leaders as well as everyday citizens to understand the complexities of their lives and then create original multimedia Vodcasts depicting the student’s interpretation of “What leadership means to me.”

“All children should have the quality of learning experience provided in the Journey program," said Dr. Pam Moran, superintendent of Albemarle County Schools in Charlottesville, VA.

This is the fourth year that the JTHG Partnership has offered the program. The program runs from July 20-31, 2009.

“We transform traditional text-book learning into a truly stimulating experience that exists only outside the confines of the classroom,” said Cate Magennis Wyatt, president of the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership. “Coupling the latest technology with creative curriculums, on-site visits, expert accounts, with the region’s breathtaking landscapes, Extreme Journey will leave students riveted by the past and ready to discover the future.”

For more information and to see a video from previous camps.

To register

Educating teachers, students, citizens and visitors is one of the primary objectives of the JTHG Partnership. Since its inception in 2006, this non-profit, four-state, public-private partnership has developed a variety of educational programs and underwritten numerous educational programs, including the highly acclaimed Extreme Journey camps for middle school children, the high school Summer Enrichment Camp with the University of Virginia, the high school programs for Loudoun County AP History classes, the semester-long Teacher certificate course taught through the Virginia Community College System, teacher workshops and semester courses for graduate students at the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech.