Programs
The Colwell Center for Global Understanding is in the Mayo center. It was founded in 2003 as the gift of the family of Stephen B. Colwell. The center supports programs and activities intended to foster global education aimed not only at the school but at the surrounding community. Students involved with the Center give presentations to teach other students about global issues. The center sponsors a number of international clubs such as Spanish, Japanese, German, Mandarin, French, International, and environmental Clubs, The Humans Rights Alliance, and Intaglio Society. It provides teachers with the opportunity to chaperone International Student trips. Two of the Colwell Center's most popular programs are the Colwell Speakers Series and the International Programs.
The Colwell Speakers Series sponsors talks and presentations from international speakers that are open to both students and the public.
The Colwell Center supports language learning, cultural understanding, and travel opportunities for students and faculty. The Center has sponsored trips abroad and exchanges for students. One study abroad opportunity is the Intaglio Society's Trip to Florence, Italy. This trip allows students to study the art of Intaglio print making in the traditional Italian way. Students visit a number of classics in the museum and churches around Italy.
Another program is the Kaijo Exchange. Since 1989 a group of Japanese boys from the Kaijo Gakuen school in Tokyo, Japan have been coming to St. Johnsbury Academy for a 10-day stay with a student host family. The Japanese students go to class with their host students and spend time touring New England.
The center offers an exchange for students go to Stuttgart, Germany for about 5 weeks over their summer break. The students stay with host families and go to school at the Kraerherwald Waldorf School with their host student. At school they take classes in both German language and German history and culture. In the fall the students from Stuttgart come to stay with the Americans that stayed with them earlier that year for 6 weeks going to school and traveling around New England.
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