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 13 through August 1 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 Haley Berry at 724.852.3238 or haley.berry2@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 Stone House |
| 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 Sunday, July 13, from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. at Willison Hall.
Check-out will occur on Friday, August 1, following the Showcase. Students will check-out from Willison Hall.
Travel
Through Space as Place - Adventure Greene County, students will visit the following local and regional locations:
- Fort Necessity
- Gettysburg National Battlefield and Visitor’s Center
- Greene County Historical Museum
- Greene River Trail
- Jumonville Glen
- Lippencott Alpaca Farm
- Rices Landing Historic District and the W.A. Young and Sons Foundry and Machine Shop
- Smithsonian Museums, Washington, D.C.
- Unity Trail
About the Class
Space as Place - Adventure Greene County: A Knowledge for Freedom Program 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?"
Funds provided by the Teagle Foundation's Knowledge for Freedom Initiative