Space as Place: Adventure Greene County provides hands-on, experiential learning for juniors and seniors in high school, enabling them to learn, travel and earn three Waynesburg University credits.
Students will reside on the Waynesburg University campus from July 8 through 26 to attend class, learn how to use tools in the Makerspace, investigate areas of interest, read transformative texts and travel to places connected to Greene County, such as Washington, D.C., and Gettysburg.
Space as Place: Adventure Greene County is free for those accepted into the program. Space is limited. If you have any questions, please contact Marci Snee at 724.852.3222 or marci.snee@waynesburg.edu.
Greene County’s Revolutionary War Connections
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8:00 a.m. |
Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. | Board the bus |
| 10:00 a.m. | Arrive at Jumonville Glen and Fort Necessity |
| 1:00 p.m. | Revolutionary War meal at the Country Inn |
| 2:30 p.m. | Class to debrief |
| 3:30 p.m. | Makerspace Activity |
| 5:00 p.m. | Dinner |
| 7:00 p.m. | Evening Activity led by WU Graduate Assistants/Residence Mentors |
Check-in on Monday, July 8, from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. at Willison Hall.
Check-out will occur on Friday, July 26, from 1:30 to 2:00 p.m. Students will check-out from Willison Hall.
Travel
Through Space as Place: Adventure Greene County, students will visit the following local and regional locations:
- Corbly Farm
- Forks of the Cheat Baptist Church
- Fort Necessity
- Gettysburg National Battlefield and Visitor’s Center
- Greene County Covered Bridges
- Greene County Historical Museum
- Greene River Trail
- Jumonville Glen
- Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- Lippencott Alpaca Farm
- Rices Landing Historic District and the W.A. Young and Sons Foundry and Machine Shop
- Ryerson Station State Park
- Scenery Hill, PA, with lunch at The Century Inn
- Smithsonian Museums, Washington, D.C.
- Unity Trail
About the Class
Space as Place is designed to offer structured exploration and "reading across places" in Greene County and beyond. We will discuss and understand the significance of transformative texts and visual arts. Space as Place provides a moving laboratory class during which you will investigate architecture, culture, environment, history, government, and all the various components that collide to shape a place out of a space. We will analyze texts, essays, paintings, photographs, journals and more. We will read, observe, write, draw, and exercise our creative muscles. You will be asked to think critically across many disciplines to ponder the big question: "How does a community of people turn the space where they live into a place of significance?"