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Day 1
Welcome to America’s Capital
- Proceed through registration, and join your fellow Student Leaders for welcome activities while your family attends orientation.
- Participate in your first leadership-group meeting, and learn more about your teacher leader, your group, and the program’s activities.
- Find out more about the history of People to People, and get to know the staff who will be guiding you through the program.
- Relax with your roommates before bed checks and lights out.
Day 2
Understanding the U.S. Government
- Enjoy breakfast with your leadership group at the hotel.
- Board the motor coach, and meet your driver and delegation manager for the week.
- Explore the Capitol, and learn more about the branches of government.
- Share lunch with fellow Student Leaders in the District before making your way to the Supreme Court, Library of Congress, and other sites on “the Hill.”
- Gain valuable insight from a current or former member of Congress as to what it takes to make and shape policy.
- Sample international cuisine and hear from accomplished speakers in the field of international diplomacy at an embassy dinner.
- Share your thoughts on the day’s events with your peers during your leadership meeting.
Day 3
Remembering the Past, Building the Future
- Board your motor coach for Arlington National Cemetery. Once there, walk among thousands of fallen soldiers honored by their country for their service.
- Make your way up to John F. Kennedy’s gravesite to observe the Eternal Flame.
- Witness the Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns, and understand the impact each soldier’s life has made on this country.
- Visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum where you will experience the exhibit Remember the Children: Daniel’s Story. Daniel, age 10, is a composite of the Jewish children who experienced the war.
- Soak in the history at the Lincoln Memorial as you stand in the spot where Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.
- Take some time to reflect on the morning’s events while your group departs for the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
- Explore another Smithsonian museum on the National Mall—The National Museum of American History
- Get the scoop at the Newseum, an interactive experience that traces five centuries of news-gathering history and technology.
- Watch the cool night air settle around the feet of the soldiers depicted in the Korean War Veterans Memorial.
- Lay a commemorative wreath at the World War II Memorial before making your way to dinner.
- Participate in your nightly leadership meeting upon arrival at the hotel.
Day 4
Building a New Nation
- Board the motor coach for the Jamestown Settlement. This is a long drive, so you can sleep, listen to music, or watch a movie on this scenic drive through Virginia.
- Learn about the people of 17th-century Virginia: Powhatan American Indians and European and African immigrants.
- Explore the Powhatan way of life in a re-created village featuring reed-covered houses.
- Enter the triangular wooden palisade of James Fort to see the thatch-roofed, wattle-and-daub homes of the early settlers.
- Climb aboard an early American vessel at Jamestown Settlement’s pier, and learn more about the four and a half months settlers spent sailing on it from England.
- Journey to Colonial Williamsburg, and meet the people, see the places, and experience the life of 18th-century colonists in this early American city.
- Search for souvenirs in Williamsburg’s quaint shops.
- Learn the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens with your keynote speaker, author Sean Covey.
Day 5
Exploring Washington, D.C.
- Assume your cover—an alternate identity—at the International Spy Museum, and make your way through its three extensive floors. Learn about spy equipment, secret messages, disguises, and much more at this hands-on museum.
- Continue your exploration of the region’s monuments and memorials with the Marine Corps War Memorial, Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, and Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
- Visit more monuments and memorials before having lunch at the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center.
- Board your motor coach for one last excursion—a casual dinner-and-dance cruise on the Potomac.
- Return to your hotel for a chance to pack and have your final leadership meeting before saying goodnight.
Day 6
Farewell
- Awake early for your family’s arrival or transport via private shuttle to the airport.
- Enjoy your final People to People breakfast.
We work diligently to ensure that the activities described here are available on your program. In rare cases, scheduling conflicts, delays, weather, or circumstances beyond our control may result in program changes. If substitution is required, we make every effort to feature comparable events to retain the content and quality of the program.
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