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High school 'Journey' camp deadline nears
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.
Deadline to apply is Feb. 15. Visit www.hallowedground.org, select the "Education" tab and then Extreme Journey High School. Or contact the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership at education@jthg.org. All students who live in the counties along the journey are eligible for a full scholarship.
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.
Video contest makes the past come alive
Students in ninth through 12th grades have until March 31 to create a two-minute video and enter it in the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Original Video Contest.
Entries will be based on excerpts from "1776" and "John Adams" by Pulitzer Prize winning author David McCullough. The three top winners will get cash prizes and will be invited to meet McCullough. Winning videos will be featured on YouTube.
Historians who guide the interactive programs along the Journey will "transport participants back in time and ask them to apply leadership skills as they think through complex decisions that defined our nation," said Angela Stokes, director of educational programs at the Journey Through Hallowed Ground.
Headquartered in Waterford, the Journey is a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising national and local awareness of the history of the region, roughly along the path of the Old Carolina Road from Gettysburg, Pa., to Monticello in Albemarle County.
Go to www.hallowedground.org for contest rules.
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