Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership's Extreme Journey Camps Underway, Offering Unique Opportunity for Kids to Experience Nation’s Most Historic Region
Waterford, VA (PRWEB) July 13, 2013 -- Extreme Journey, the award-winning summer day camp organized by the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership, uses multimedia, local experts, and the region’s own historic resources to provide middle-school students a chance to experience the nation’s 38th National Heritage Area like never before. The first camp is now underway at Harper Park Middle School and runs through July 19. The second camp is scheduled for July 15-26 at Smart’s Mill Middle School in Leesburg. Both camps are completely full.
Now in its eighth year, the Extreme Journey takes students on hiking, biking, and canoeing trips through our National Parks, historic sites and scenic rivers between Gettysburg and Monticello. After being recruited as agents in the "Journey Intelligence Agency," students spend time with National Park Service Rangers, expert historians, archaeologists, naturalists and educators to unlock the stories and lessons of leadership that are demonstrated throughout this region. They visit many of the nation’s most historical heritage sites, assuming the identities of those who actually lived there, and are faced with the same set of circumstances as they “walk in their boots” to better understand the choices and decisions of those who forged this nation.
The students record their trials, triumphs and lessons of leadership learned from the pre-Revolutionary period through the Civil War, using digital cameras to create a video documentary, or "vodcast," of “What Leadership Means to Me.” The vodcasts are then shared on the JTHG Partnership website, Facebook, and YouTube, creating a “viral” effect of the student’s new found knowledge and appreciation of the nation’s heritage. The vodcasts will be premiered at an event open to the public upon completion of the camp.
“We transform traditional text-book learning into a truly stimulating experience that exists only outside the confines of the classroom,” said Cate Magennis Wyatt, founder and 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.” To find out more details, to view a video about this program, or to see examples of the work of previous secret agents, visit http://www.hallowedground.org/Education/Camps.
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