Program would pair high school, college

Both an academic camp and a performing arts program will be offered.
By HAROLD GWIN
VINDICATOR EDUCATION WRITER
CAMPBELL -- Campbell City Schools are looking at a partnership with Westminster College and the Marion G. Resch Foundation to create an early-education program for selected high school students.
The foundation is willing to pick up the $50,000 annual cost for a period of four years.
The school board is scheduled to vote on the arrangement Thursday.
The project will have two components, said Richard Gozur, principal of Campbell's Memorial High School.
The first will be a 10-day, academic residential summer camp at Westminster, open primarily to ninth-graders.
The second is a 10-day, nonresidential performing arts program at Westminster, open to all Memorial High School students.
Academic camp
The academic camp is designed to target pupils who want to achieve, and is limited to 16 participants, Gozur said. The program isn't looking for the best or the worst students, although selection will partially be based on standardized test scores.
The program will follow the students through their entire four years of high school, and the same students will be invited to attend the summer camp each year.
Westminster instructors will handle the teaching during the camp, and Westminster students will come to Campbell twice each week to tutor the pupils taking part in the academic camp program.
It will give the pupils a chance to get familiar with a college setting and what college has to offer. It will also give them a shot at competitive college scholarship grants offered by the foundation, Gozur said.
Just what classes will be taught during the camp has yet to be determined, he said.
Performing arts
The performing arts program can accept only 24 pupils but it can be a different group of pupils each summer, he said.
Campbell will assign two teachers to serve as liaisons for both project components.
The programs are strictly voluntary and pupils can apply for admission, Gozur said. The school hopes to have pupils selected for the program by February, he said.
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