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The world is waiting.

It’s where you’re headed someday.

Get to know it now.

Through weekly exploration in a dynamic metropolitan center, you will learn how government functions, how culture shapes society, how the far-flung corners of the world connect.

Most Wednesday afternoons, EHS students head into the D.C. area for authentic, real-world learning experiences.

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You’ll sample, then focus, then dive into action, gaining experience that will help you shape a path and build an unshakable foundation.

Confidence, flexibility, innovative mindset. You’ll leave high school ready – to contribute, to lead, to write your next chapter.

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Throughout your time at EHS, you will have weekly, insider access to the nation’s capital, learning from and working with the people and institutions that make Washington, D.C., one of the world’s most influential – and exciting – metropolitan areas.

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The Washington Program keeps students and faculty constantly connected to the world beyond the campus gates.

One example: the School’s “satellite” classroom in the WeWork co-working space is connected to more than 3,000 start-ups, nongovernmental organizations, and nonprofits.

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HOW IT WORKS From weekly excursions to a senior externship, you will get to know the world via direct experiences throughout the D.C. metropolitan area. No matter when you begin your EHS adventure, the Washington Program will offer you broad exploration, deliberate focus, and immersive, experience-based learning.

Learn the City (9th grade) Explore Washington through the lenses of four concentrations: public policy, sustainability, cultural awareness, and entrepreneurship.

Make Connections (10th and 11th grades) Take a deeper dive when you make offcampus connections with cutting-edge leaders and organizations, choosing from a broad array of experiences crafted by the Washington Program and EHS faculty.

Apply What You’ve Learned (12th grade) Washington truly becomes the classroom as you spend a year preparing for the ultimate Washington Program Experience: the Senior Externship, in which you will work for a partner organization on site.

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CONCENTRATIONS One city. Four lenses. Each of the Washington Program’s four concentrations offers different experiences, skill sets, and perspectives that will enlarge your sense of the world and prepare you to make your mark on it.

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Study expressions of cultural heritage through direct interactions with communities, ideas, music, and art – in a city rich with cultural resources.

Meet key players in D.C.’s thriving start-up community. Learn how vision and innovative thinking impact daily life in D.C. and around the globe.

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Explore the delicate overlap and interplay of environment and society.

Study the human impact on landscapes in D.C. and learn about innovations in health, science, and technology.

See firsthand how leadership decisions are made on a national and global level and how competing ideas are dissected, debated, and ultimately channeled into policy and law.

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EXPERIENCES Almost every Wednesday – 21 times each year – you’ll finish classes by noon, grab lunch, and enjoy rare, behind-the-scenes access to the people, organizations, and institutions of the D.C. metropolitan area.

Recent Wednesday Experiences Bunker Labs Living in the shadow of the Pentagon, EHS students have extraordinary access to the military community and its unique entrepreneurial ecosystem.

For example, during an intensive site visit to the Bunker Labs incubator, EHS students met with founders and CEOs of several entrepreneurial ventures aimed at serving veterans.

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Students learned about the “tiny house” movement from designer/activist Brian Levy, one of the founders of Micro Showcase, an initiative devoted to promoting significantly smaller-than-average homes that consume far fewer resources and leave a lighter carbon footprint.

Busboys and Poets To kick off their study of Zora Neale Hurston’s novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” EHS 9th graders visited Busboys and Poets, a D.C. dining and performance space, to watch local actors perform a series of dramatic readings – including passages from the novel.

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EXTERNSHIPS

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The final leg of your EHS journey will be your Senior Externship, a monthlong, daily immersion in an experience that will prepare you to thrive in college and beyond.

Recent Senior Externship sites: American Red Cross America’s Future Workforce Caring Hands Animal Hospital Casa Chirilagua Common Good City Farm Cue Recording Studios Daily Caller Douglas MacArthur Elementary School Everfi Georgetown University Medical Center Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

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Hometown: Potomac, Md. Externship: The Malala Fund Concentration: Public Policy Managed fan correspondence and supported the release of a documentary about Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai’s struggle to bring about global equity in girls’ education.

“The most rewarding part of my externship was knowing that the work I did was about so much more than myself and the organization – it was about and for millions of girls around the world.”

Because they emerge from your own interests and are shaped by your own goals, no two externship experiences are exactly alike. Here is how four recent seniors chose to chase their passions and test their ambitions in their final month at EHS.

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LUIS GARCIA DEL RIO Hometown: Madrid, Spain Externship: Fluencia Concentration: Entrepreneurship Developed content ideas and articles aimed at Spanish speakers trying to learn English for the SpanishDict blog.

“I’ve learned how to work within a company – from figuring out the best ways to communicate with my partner to helping other teams that need my expertise.”

RYOAN YAMAMOTO Hometown: Raleigh, N.C. Externship: Capital Construction Consultants Concentration: Sustainability Generated reports and processed change orders for a construction management company.

“As an aspiring engineer, I was interested in seeing the business aspects of construction, as my focus had been on the mathematical side.”

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LAYNE BERRY Hometown: Alexandria, Va. Externship: Douglas MacArthur Elementary School Concentration: Cultural Awareness Helped teach 4th and 5th grade math and English.

“Before my externship, I had no clue what I wanted to do with my life. Now I’m positive that I want to teach in some form.”

OUTCOMES Beyond warm memories and exciting experiences, the Washington Program has a lifelong impact – preparing students for 21stcentury careers, in which the ability to solve problems and create connections will serve them far better than simple knowledge.

“[Interning in Congressman Dan Daniel’s office] gave me an appreciation for what our elected representatives do and the issues that they deal with, and most certainly how important it is.”

ROBERT HURT ’87, Republican Congressman, Virginia

“I couldn’t believe that as a high schooler I had found my way into one of the country’s leading cancer research centers.

Understanding that I was already prepared, as an Episcopal student, to start down the research path bolstered my confidence and motivated me to continue seeking out research opportunities at Duke.”

MARK HERZOG ’11, Duke University ’15, Harvard Medical School student

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FACTS

80-100 APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF WASHINGTON PROGRAM EXPERIENCES EACH STUDENT ENGAGES IN DURING THEIR YEARS AT EHS

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PERCENTAGE OF EHS COURSES OFFERING A WASHINGTON PROGRAM EXPERIENCE COMPONENT

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PERCENTAGE OF FACULTY WHO LEAD STUDENTS INTO WASHINGTON, D.C., EACH YEAR

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NUMBER OF FACULTY ADVISORS DESIGNING INNOVATIVE OPPORTUNITIES AND GUIDING STUDENTS THROUGH THE PROGRAM

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