For the past six years, a group of our Middle School students has traveled to Oaxaca to attend classes in language and culture at The Instituto Cultural de Oaxaca. Departure from Austin is typically two or three days following graduation in June. The stay in Oaxaca lasts two weeks. All participants live with Mexican families who have been carefully selected by the Institute Director. The trip to Oaxaca provides a unique opportunity for students to improve their Spanish language skills and gain an understanding of our Mexican neighbors to the south.
Parents are also welcome to join.
Gaylan DuBose takes a group of qualified eighth grade Latin students to the week-long National Junior Classical League Convention, which is held on a different college campus each year. Students stay in dormitories and eat in the school's cafeterias. For 2001 the convention will take place in mid-July at Tulane University in New Orleans. Participants will have the opportunity to meet other Latin students from around the nation and to get involved in various types of competition, both academic and athletic. Participants will design and build robots using a Lego system, then control them with a computer.