Registration for Extreme Journey Through Hallowed Ground Summer Camp is now open for 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.

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 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.”

This is the fourth year that the JTHG Partnership has offered the program. The program runs from July 6 – 17, 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, go to: Extreme Journey