On July 14, the 12th cycle of Harvard's CHS Greece High School Summer Program (HSSP 2023) was completed. The group's in situ meetings were held at CHS Greece and the 1st Senior High School of Nafplio.
HSSP 2023 was organized in collaboration with the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies and with the support of the Center for European Studies, Harvard University. The Summer Program was coordinated by Harvard faculty: Nicolas Prevelakis (Harvard/CHS) Program Director, Charles Clavey, and Tracey Rosen, Lecturers in Social Studies at Harvard. The teaching fellows and Harvard University students Caroline Gage, Chloe Koulefianou, Kari Traylor, and Katherine Zhu, worked intensively with the participants for two and a half weeks while honing their own teaching skills ("teaching internship"). This year, we welcomed 22 high school students from senior high schools of the Argolis region and Western Attica, as well as the winning student at the Panhellenic Philosophical Essay Competition for high school students, organized by the Department of Philosophy, University of Patras, and supported by CHS Greece and the Panhellenic Association of Philologists.
The high school students worked intensively in an innovative learning environment, and participated in the program's educational activities as well as in several other fresh activities. Namely, they:
- participated in group activities and discussions organized and coordinated by the teaching fellows,
- discussed with our guest, Associate Director of Academic Affairs of the Center for Hellenic Studies in the US, Associate Professor at Howard University, Dr. Caroline Stark,
- were informed about studies in US higher education institutions by Nicholas Tourides, Educational Advisor and American Program Coordinator at the Fulbright Foundation in Greece,
- participated in a volunteer activity of cleaning the path leading to the Palamidi Castle in Nafplio,
- worked intensively in subgroups during the program's final days, developing small research projects which they presented at the closing event on July 14.
We sincerely thank everyone contributing to the successful completion of this year's program, and we are already planning ahead for next year.
