Registration for Extreme Journey Through Hallowed Ground Summer Camp is now open for Loudoun County, VA middle school students interested in using modern-day technology and on-site experiences to discover critical historic events in the nation's most historic region.

The Journey Through Hallowed Ground has funded a limited number of scholarships to ensure that the cost set by each school system is not a barrier for interested youth.

In this two-week program, students explore the region known as Where America Happened. Hiking, biking, paddling, role-playing, and movie making -- all are part of the Extreme Journey in the area many call "Where America Happened."

Students visit critically important historic sites from Gettysburg to Monticello, where they view life through a different lens and get the inside scoop from experts. Archaeologists, authors, Park Rangers, re-enactors as well as multimedia specialists share their passion and expertise, taking students back in time, into the mind set of men and women during a crucial time in our nation's history.

Students evaluate the roles of former leaders as well as everyday citizens to understand the complexities of their lives and then create original multimedia VOD-casts depicting the students' interpretations of "What leadership means to me."

This is the fourth year that the JTHG Partnership has offered the program that runs from July 6 - 17, 2009.

"We transform traditional text-book learning into a truly stimulating experience that exists only outside the confines of the classroom," said Cate Magennis Wyatt, president of the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership.

For more information and to see a video from previous camps, go to http://www.hallowedground.org/content/view/285/67/