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The 6 academies maintain their individuality and offer activities to expand global awareness, multi-cultural understanding, and international education. The three immersion academies provide an intensive experience and unique challenge for students who have excelled in language study to continue their study of that language in a total immersion environment, which is generally unavailable in the regular school environment. The Latin Academy provides an intensive experience for students who have excelled in the study of Latin to continue their study in a milieu unavailable in the regular school environment and introduces the students to classical Greek. The non-immersion programs in Japanese and Russian provide an opportunity for interested students to be introduced to the Russian or Japanese cultures and languages, which are not widely taught across the Commonwealth. The success of the pilot Virginia's Governor's Foreign Language Academies is influencing other states into starting similar programs to encourage excellence in foreign languages. ACTIVITIES The students all study, eat, and sleep in the same buildings at VCU. The highlights of the program include day trips to Washington, D.C. to see various museums, academic, and/or cultural institutions that correspond to the respective foreign languages, outings to the Virginia Museum Of Fine Arts , and the Foreign Languages Olympics when students from each of the foreign languages participate in a mock Olympics -like competition. At the end of the three weeks, there is a traditional closing ceremony for all including a play performed by the students, one language to a scene. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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