BHS Students Travel To Washington DC And New York
Author: Karsyn Sangray, Broadwater High School Student Intern
Karsyn Sangray
Broadwater High School Student Intern
Six BHS students visited Washington D.C. and New York during this year’s Close Up Tour. Led by teacher and advisor Brittany Bancroft, Memphys Meier, Abigail Wickens, Karsyn Sangray, Anna Beatty, Jazlyn Martin, and Jenna Mainwaring took on the cities. The group toured many places, including the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, the Holocaust Museum, and Times Square. They were able to meet with a staff member of their Congressman, Steve Daines, at his office in Washington, D.C. They arrived in the late afternoon on Sunday, March 16th, along with students from schools across the nation.
Anna Beatty had a blast taking pictures of everything. She thinks that she has over 2,000 pictures. Her favorite part of the trip was meeting other people who were there and getting to explore Washington, D.C. and New York with them. Her tour favorites were seeing the Brooklyn Bridge, the presidents’ memorials and the Holocaust Museum. Anna had the opportunity to meet new people as she and her roommate Jenna Mainwaring shared a room with two girls from Drummond. The friends she made along the way will last her a lifetime, she said. When talking about the week, she said, “One thing I learned is that P.T. Barnum, the circus owner, walked 21 elephants across the Brooklyn bridge to prove that it was a stable and safe bridge. Something that I took away was the influence you have when you are a part of a specific state.”
Memphys Meier also enjoyed the Close Up tour and her favorite part was watching the Broadway show “Boop!”. Boop! was about how the well-known cartoon character Betty Boop felt in her world. She took a trip to the ‘real world’ and experienced everything, even love. The Broadway show had a few rows filled with students whose eyes never left the stage
Memphys also enjoyed her visit to the Statue of Liberty. One of Memphys’s favorite parts was not in New York but in Washington D.C. She learned about the Korean War and found that there is only one specific spot you can stand without the statues being able to see you. That impacted her perspective on war and what these soldiers really went through. She described her week, saying, “We toured around some of the memorials and museums the average person will never get to see. Our nation’s memorials and museums represent wars in a most beautiful and honorable way. When we went to New York, it felt as if we were in a movie. There was so much shopping and sights to see all around us. However, overall, the people that we traveled with made it whole.”
Founded in 1971, the nonprofit Close Up Foundation seeks to introduce high school students from all states to participate in learning about civic education, including active participation to give them a deeper understanding of history, government institutions and current issues
The group of six girls would like to thank their advisor, Ms. Bancroft, their chaperones Kamae Meier and Shawna Wickens and the people who supported their fundraising efforts.
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Image 1 Caption: From left: Jenna Mainwaring, Anna Beatty, Abigail Wickens, Karsyn Sangray, Jazlyn Martin and Memphys Meier at Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, DC.
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