Sustainable Travel Scholarship Winners Announced
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact in Europe: Petulia Melideo, +39 06 97625204, petulia@contexttravel.com
Contact in U.S.: Paul Bennett, +1 215 392 0303, paul@contexttravel.com
Rome, May 13, 2010-Context’s Foundation for Sustainable Travel and the St Hope Public Schools, in Sacramento, California, are pleased to announce the winners of their annual travel scholarship: senior Kaneisha King and junior Kathleen Snook.
The two students, selected from a larger group of applicants, will be traveling to Rome, Florence and Paris with a chaperone. During their time in Europe they will be on a busy schedule of two walking seminars per day, learning about history, art, architecture and society. Each student will be expected to keep a blog journal during the trip and prepare a final project, relevant to the trip, that will be presented to the school in August 2010.
This travel scholarship is underwritten by the Context Foundation for Sustainable Travel, a 501c3 charitable organization that promotes cultural preservation and equitable travel opportunities in such cultural capitals as Florence, Rome, London, New York and Paris. In 2009, Context Travel and the Foundation for Sustainable Travel were recognized by National Geographic’s Geotourism Challenge as an outstanding leader in sustainable travel, the only urban-based travel company to receive recognition. The purpose of the scholarship is to give high-achieving high school students from economically challenged inner city neighborhoods the opportunity to travel abroad and work with professors from universities.
Kaneisha and Kathleen were selected by a panel of judges comprised of teachers and advisors from Sac High and Context Travel. In preparation for the trip they have been following workshops, taking extra classes on art, history and mythology, and honing their writing skills.
"We were given an incredible opportunity, and we are going to make the best of it, " said Kathleen Snook, winner of the 2010 Scholarship. " I have never been out of the country, and the idea of traveling to Europe and learning about a different culture, history and society was unthinkable until a few months ago."
As part of the project, students will participate in a one-day writing workshop with travel writer Susan Van Allen. They will also be enrolled in a 12 week Matador U Travel Writing Program.
Regards,
Petulia Melideo
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