High School Summer Program in Greece concluded - Press release

July 14, 2025

On July 11, the fourteenth cycle of Harvard's CHS Greece High School Summer Program (HSSP 2025) in Nafplio was completed.

HSSP 2025 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 Bo-Mi Choi, Lecturers in Social Studies at Harvard. The teaching fellows and Harvard University students (in alphabetical order) Donald Cruse, Hannah Duane, Gowri Rangu, Caroline Rubin, and Dailan Xu, 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 participants 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 Education of the Nafplion Municipality, visited the Nafplio Nursing Home, providing pleasant moments through music, dance, singing, and a theatrical presentation,
and worked intensively in subgroups during the program's final days, developing small research projects which they presented at the closing event on July 11.

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