Enrichment+Program

=== //The Enrichment Program at Hampton High School **offers programs for all students: those with GIEP's and those without. The goal is to extend the instruction and learning in the regular education classroom for those students whose exceptional ability in a given area either requires such an approach or who would benefit form such an approach.**// ===

//Programs include **extensions of the regular classroom activities, competitions, Lunch and Learns and co-curricular opportunities.**//


 * //The enrichment of the regular education program//** //includes opportunities through the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh (www.worldpittsburgh.org), global discussions and moderated conversations on an on-going and continuous basis with the American Academy in Tbilisi, the Republic of Georgia, and more recently the USAID funded Civic Education Clubs throughout Tbilisi. We have also added the Roots School in Islamabad, Pakistan, to our international connections These programs tap into the interests of students at Hampton through the Social Studies, World language, English, and Science Departments. Each year, opportunities emerge that will benefit students in a wide variety of specific courses. Since even interested students want to know the personal benefit they will accrue from participation in such programs, plans are underway with the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh and the Pennsylvania Council for International Education (pacie.org) to issue a Certificate of Global Citizenship to those students who meet specific criteria including participation in a set number of global events and initiating, planning, and completing a project with an international flavor. This project may be co-orchestrated with a student or students in Georgia or Pakistan or any other country with whom we may establish a solid global link This certificate would be an innovative addition to a college application or scholarship process.//


 * //Competitions//** //may include Hometown High Q, Regional ad National Science Bowls, academic World Quest, Duquesne University Academic Challenge, Rotary International Topic Discussions, and the Rotary Ethics Symposium. Many of these events occur on a Saturday or Sunday so the students do not miss school and several involve after school practice sessions to prepare for the competitions.//


 * //Lunch and Learns//** //are presentations, seminars discussions that a take place during a student's regularly scheduled lunch period. Students either purchase their lunches in at the cafeteria or ring a bag lunch and eat it in the LGI, the Auditorium or a designated classroom while listening to a. presentation. Topics are offered on a cyclical rather than an annual basis so that theoretically a student entering grade nine will have the opportunity to hear the range of speaker speakers during his or her four years at Hampton. Lunch an Learns include career exploration, specific writing skills development such as writing the college essay and personal statement, college related topics such as internships ROTC, ad scholarship opportunities, etc. Each year, unique opportunities may present themselves, and we strive to take advantage of them during a Lunch and Learn. In the past, we have hosted a nobel prize winner, a foreign service officer, Native Amerian medicine men and others.//

//**Co-Curricular Activities** include opportunities for shadow studies and apprenticeships throughout the Allegheny Intermediate Unit. These are advertised periodically throughout the year. Students may also participate in Calcu-Solve, the AMC Math Exam, the computer fair, Model UN, Chess competitions and other worthwhile events that complement and extend the learning from the existing curriculum.//