HISTORY

For some five decades, the Junior High Middle School Seminar to Washington, DC has offered America’s junior citizens a wonderful and very special opportunity to visit our Nation’s Capital. These enjoyable and professionally administered tours and learning programs have been acclaimed by teachers, students and parents alike. Extending from a few days to a week in length, many thousands of American youngsters have participated in the programs over the past 40+ years, returning home with memories and new found knowledge to last a lifetime.

Since inception, the Junior High Middle School Seminar to Washington, DC has been sponsored by the Washington Workshops Foundation, founded in 1967 as a non-profit, non-partisan educational foundation. Washington Workshops is the multiple recipient of the Americanism Award of the Valley Forge Freedoms Foundation for “outstanding achievement in bringing about a better understanding of the American way of life.” The National Association of Secondary School Principals has placed the Workshops seminars on the Advisory List of National Contests and Activities for 2009-2010. In addition, Washington Workshops has received the support of the National Association of Independent Schools, the National Council for Social Studies, and has been endorsed by the Smithsonian Institution’s Office of Elementary and Secondary Education.