Students from Oceanside, Watershed join other Maine high schools for Camden Conference in the Classroom

PORTLAND — College students from Oceanside Excessive College, in Rockland, and Watershed, in Camden, are amongst 13 Maine excessive faculties that may spend a weekend in Portland as a part of a Camden Convention within the Classroom mission.

The Portland weekend is a part of the 2023 Camden Convention on “International Commerce and Politics: Managing Turbulence” to be produced stay on stage in Camden, February 17-19, and stay streamed to Hannaford Corridor on the College of Southern Maine, in addition to to venues in Rockland and Belfast.  See camdenconference.org for particulars on the panelists, to register to attend in particular person or on-line, and to search out out extra concerning the training program. The Convention with a distinct world subject yearly has traditionally drawn audiences from throughout Maine, the US and overseas.

In line with the Convention, in a information launch, Joe Hennessey, an English educate in Guilford, is happy about bringing his highschool college students in an elective world commerce class to Portland subsequent weekend to listen to a Harvard Legislation professor and different consultants share the most recent on globalization and commerce wars.

Hennessey moved to Maine from Colorado partly for the snowboarding. He was welcomed by the small manufacturing city in North-Central Maine and shortly branched out to incorporate world points in his curriculum to higher put together college students for the long run. Awarded Maine Trainer of the 12 months in 2019, Hennessey contends that an elevated data of the world might assist increase horizons and profession choices for his college students at Piscataquis Group Excessive College.

Guilford college students might be joined by college students from different Maine excessive faculties for a complete of 85, many from small cities away from Southern Maine and the coast, who’re taking part within the 8-year-old Camden Convention in Classroom (CCC) mission. The mission helps fund year-long programs on the Convention subject of the yr and affords subsidies to scholar and their lecturers to attend the Convention. That is the primary that each one the highschool college students might be in Portland, which is an added attraction for the scholars.

Inter-generational studying has lengthy been a objective of the Camden Convention, now in its thirty sixth yr. Highschool and faculty college students have attended numerous venues and at all times ask a few of the most difficult questions. The Convention helps with content material for courses at each Maine excessive faculties and schools. Funds to help Convention college students come from numerous sources together with specifically designated Convention funds, foundations, funds from taking part faculties and the bequest of Meg Malmberg. Persevering with training credit for lecturers are earned with their participation.

Different faculties taking part are: Bonny Eagle Excessive, Standish; Brewer Excessive College; Gould Academy, Bethel; Lewiston Excessive College; Maine Academy of Pure Sciences, Hinckley; Oak Hill Excessive College, Wales; Oceanside Excessive College, Rockland; Sanford Excessive College; and Watershed College, Camden.