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A recent summer educational trip not only allowed local Champion students to see historic and government sites in Washington, D.C., but also a chance to consider available careers at Gallaudet University, where there is a school for deaf education students.
Kay Verch, teacher of deaf education students at Champion High School, said that every few years since the late 1980s, educational trips to such places as Washington and other major cities are held to tour historic sites and college campuses.
Verch said Gallaudet had a representative on this trip who helped with the tour when the students arrived at the university.
Other trips in the past have included to Niagara Falls in Toronto, with stops in Rochester, N.Y, at the Rochester Technical Institute, where one of their colleges is the National Technical Institute for the Deaf.
Verch and Cathy Anderson, also a teacher of deaf education students at Champion, accompanied the students in ninth to 12th grades on the trip held in mid-June.
‘‘The purpose is to give the students an opportunity to go on a trip and see available career opportunities for them,’’ Verch said.
Verch said Anderson’s social studies classes had been taking about Washington and its buildings and people prior to the trip so the students were prepared for what they may see.
Verch said many of the students never had been out of Ohio, so the experience was a new one for them.
Also included on the trip were students from Ellett High School in Akron, which also has a deaf education program. Verch said that allowed Champion students to meet other teens.
The trip included nine Champion and 11 Akron deaf education students, as well as teachers, spouses of teachers and interpreters and Donna Zuga, the Champion program supervisor.
To raise money for the trip, benefit car washes and other fundraisers were held. Rotary clubs from Cortland, Warren and Champion, and Kiwanis clubs from Champion and Ravenna contributed.
The tour included stops at the Smithsonian Institute, different monuments and the Capitol building. An interpreter explained the different sites.
Congressman Timothy J. Ryan, D-Niles, and other congressmen and women showed students what they do, Verch said.
One student was concerned why deaf people are not permitted to serve in any way in the military. Verch said Ryan told them he would address their concern.
Also on the trip the group saw people signing and being videotaped and learned that Deaf Nation, a national organization, was taping a segment in Washington D.C.
‘‘The children saw them signing and immediately ran over to see what they were doing,’’ Verch said.
The students got to appear with the Deaf Nation program. Verch said the people with Deaf Nation were just as surprised to see a group of deaf students from Ohio in Washington.
A recent summer educational trip not only allowed local Champion students to see historic and government sites in Washington, D.C., but also a chance to consider available careers at Gallaudet University, where there is a school for deaf education students.
Kay Verch, teacher of deaf education students at Champion High School, said that every few years since the late 1980s, educational trips to such places as Washington and other major cities are held to tour historic sites and college campuses.
Verch said Gallaudet had a representative on this trip who helped with the tour when the students arrived at the university.
Other trips in the past have included to Niagara Falls in Toronto, with stops in Rochester, N.Y, at the Rochester Technical Institute, where one of their colleges is the National Technical Institute for the Deaf.
Verch and Cathy Anderson, also a teacher of deaf education students at Champion, accompanied the students in ninth to 12th grades on the trip held in mid-June.
‘‘The purpose is to give the students an opportunity to go on a trip and see available career opportunities for them,’’ Verch said.
Verch said Anderson’s social studies classes had been taking about Washington and its buildings and people prior to the trip so the students were prepared for what they may see.
Verch said many of the students never had been out of Ohio, so the experience was a new one for them.
Also included on the trip were students from Ellett High School in Akron, which also has a deaf education program. Verch said that allowed Champion students to meet other teens.
The trip included nine Champion and 11 Akron deaf education students, as well as teachers, spouses of teachers and interpreters and Donna Zuga, the Champion program supervisor.
To raise money for the trip, benefit car washes and other fundraisers were held. Rotary clubs from Cortland, Warren and Champion, and Kiwanis clubs from Champion and Ravenna contributed.
The tour included stops at the Smithsonian Institute, different monuments and the Capitol building. An interpreter explained the different sites.
Congressman Timothy J. Ryan, D-Niles, and other congressmen and women showed students what they do, Verch said.
One student was concerned why deaf people are not permitted to serve in any way in the military. Verch said Ryan told them he would address their concern.
Also on the trip the group saw people signing and being videotaped and learned that Deaf Nation, a national organization, was taping a segment in Washington D.C.
‘‘The children saw them signing and immediately ran over to see what they were doing,’’ Verch said.
The students got to appear with the Deaf Nation program. Verch said the people with Deaf Nation were just as surprised to see a group of deaf students from Ohio in Washington.
