Media Alert: Gifted and Talented Students To Study Chinese Or Arabic At The Maryland Summer Center For Global Languages

Funding Provided By The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation

For Immediate Release                             Contact: William Reinhard, 410-767-0486

Baltimore, MD (July 18, 2014)

WHAT: The Maryland Summer Center for Global Languages is designed to offer students a challenging and exciting language experience and an opportunity to explore many aspects of cultures and civilizations far more ancient than those of the United States. The students may choose to study Chinese or Arabic in a rigorous, exciting, hands-on, and engaging experience.

The 2014 Maryland Summer Centers Program continues a 46 year commitment at the State level to provide summer educational opportunities for Maryland’s gifted and talented students. The program, coordinated through the Maryland State Department of Education, in partnership with public and nonpublic agencies, provides Maryland’s diverse gifted and talented student population with advanced, rigorous, experiential learning opportunities that nurture these students’ talents and abilities within unique learning environments.

WHO: Gifted and Talented students, entering grades 4 – 6, interested in learning where Chinese or Arabic is spoken as well as gaining a cultural understanding and knowledge of language.

WHEN:      July 21-31, 2014
8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. (Monday through Thursday only)     
                  
WHERE:   Meade Middle School (Anne Arundel County)
                 1103 26th Street
                  Ft. Meade, Maryland 20755
                  (410-222-5424)

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