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Schenectady students recount weeklong Senegal immersion; board praised trip’s academic and cultural value
Summary
Students returned from a weeklong immersion trip to Senegal and described school visits, museum tours and community exchanges; presenters and parents told the board the experience broadened students’ historical and cultural understanding and urged the district to expand similar opportunities.
Students from Schenectady City School District told the Board of Education on March 11 that a recent weeklong immersion trip to Senegal was academically and personally transformative.
Janaya Rivera and Kiana Marable, seniors at Tech Valley High School, and several classmates walked the board through a day-by-day recap of the experience, which included school visits, meetings at museums and the U.S. Embassy in Dakar, a ferry trip to Goree Island and time at the Pink Lake and a wildlife ranch. Suraj Singh explained that visiting Goree Island and seeing the "door of no return" carried an emotional…
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