High School Summer Program in Greece concluded - Press release

A group of young participants, along with the teaching team of the HSSP 2024, stand in front of the building that houses CHS Greece in Philhellene Square. They are all proudly holding their diplomas of completion for the program.

On July 12, the thirteenth cycle of Harvard's CHS Greece High School Summer Program (HSSP 2024) in Nafplio was completed.

HSSP 2024 was organized by CHS Greece in collaboration with the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies and with the support of the Center for European Studies and the Department of the Classics, 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 (in alphabetical order) Joseph Foo, Adelaide Parker, Olivia Pasquerella, Michael Pontius, Maya Rosen, and Maren Wong, worked intensively with the participants for two and a half weeks while honing their own teaching skills ("teaching internship"). This year, we welcomed twenty-four high school students from senior high schools of the Argolis region and the Arcadia region, 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,
  • were informed about studies in US higher education institutions by Nicholas Tourides, Educational Advisor and American Program Coordinator at the Fulbright Foundation in Greece,
  • in cooperation with the Department of Culture of the Nafplion Municipality, which conducts research on the cultural development of the Municipality, participated in a volunteer activity of informing residents and visitors of the city,
  • and worked intensively in subgroups during the program's final days, developing small research projects which they presented at the closing event on July 12.

The Summer Meeting of the Summer Program Alumni of all years was held on Thursday, July 11. The meeting was held in the courtyard of the 2nd High School of Nafplio, and the Alumni of previous years as well as the participants and the teaching team of this year had the opportunity to get to know each other, to chat and exchange information.

We sincerely thank everyone contributing to the successful completion of this year's program, and we are already planning ahead for next year.

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