A group of Wrangell High School students spent a week in both New York City and Washington D.C. as part of the Close Up program. From left: Tyler Eagle, Matthew Covalt, an unnamed member of the U.S. Capitol Police, McKenna Harding, Calleigh Miller, Luke Gunderson, Erica Smith and Kristin Galla.
The Wrangell High School Close Up group returned from a student government trip to Washington D.C. and New York City on Monday, April 8 with seven students and one adult.
Close Up is a non-profit organization that exists to educate and inspire young people to participate in our democracy.
The students spent five days in Washington D.C. and two and a half days in New York City. In D.C. they participated in workshops and heard from speakers like Jonathan Allen, POLITICO’s senior Washington correspondent, as well as visiting many memorials and monuments. In New York City the kids had a tour of the United Nations, took a harbor cruise around Manhattan and past the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, walked Wall Street and visited the 9/11 Memorial.
When asked what some of the highlights of each city were, the students replied with the following: Erica Smith – the World War II Memorial in DC and the Broadway Show, Matilda, in New York City; McKenna Harding – the Martin Luther King Memorial in DC and the Broadway Show in New York City; Kristin Galla - Close Up’s panel workshops in DC and the Broadway Show in New York City; Calliegh Miller – the Lincoln Memorial in DC and the Broadway Show in New York City; Matthew Covalt - riding the Metro in DC and the Broadway Show in New York City; Tyler Eagle – the Jefferson Memorial in DC and the Broadway Show in New York City; Luke Gunderson – the Lincoln Memorial in DC and the Broadway Show in New York City.
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