Students in Boston's Citizen Schools program 8th Grade Academy are spending three days exploring the Hamilton campus this week in their fourth consecutive visit to the Hill. Citizen Schools is a national education initiative utilizing adult volunteers to help improve student achievement through skill-building apprenticeships, rigorous academic and leadership development activities and real world learning projects.
During this college-immersion trip, middle school students got a taste of college life - including watching explosions in a chemistry class, holding reptiles in a biology lab, eating meals in the campus dining halls, taking a "sample class" in German, visiting WHCL and engaging in sports activities with Hamilton student athletes. They also met with admissions and financial aid officers and explore what it takes to get into and finance college. John Werner '92 is executive director of Citizen Schools.
