select students chosen for
experiential education class
(foreign travel)

The Experiential Class (Foreign Travel) is a for-credit class in the upper school providng one elective (1) Carnegie Unit (CU) toward graduation. The class is graded A+ through F. The Foreign Travel Class is one of two experiential learning opportunities offered in the upper school: the other is North Carolina Outward Bound.

Beginning with our first trip to London UK in 1996 (we were The Community High School then), CAPCS students have traveled five continents to Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, England, France, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Morocco, Peru, Portugal, Quebec, Slovakia, Spain, Vatican City, and Wales.

A new group of students are chosen each spring for the following year. Each student is required to attend classes, do a PowerPoint presentation and/or various assignments on assigned topics*, study and prepare for the trip, follow strict rules of behavior both on the trip and in the period before the trip, maintain good grades, and write a journal that will be graded. The trip is considered an academic course, and students receive a grade based on their pre-trip work, the journal, chaperone comments, and a suggested grade given by each of the chaperones. The final grade includes all these factors and is given by Mr. Proietta, as Lead Teacher for the Class. We are proud to travel each year with Casterbridge Tours of Virginia USA and Kent UK.
* The curriculum varies from year to year.

Strict Rules of Behavior

*Students are expected to behave above and beyond the expectations of the Code of Conduct. Students chosen for the trip are expected to be role models for other students. Any infractions of the Code of Conduct--from the first day of school until the moment we depart--will be reviewed by Mr. Joseph Proietta, CAPCS’ CEO and Founder and Ms. Yeidy Rodriquez (Vice President of CAPCS and an alumna) and the high school administration (principal, vice principal and senior faculty), and the student's status on the trip will be reevaluated. All rules in the Code of Conduct, a specific dress code unique to the trip, and specific trip rules apply while going to, on, and returning from the trip. Permission to attend the trip is at the sole discretion of the CEO of CAPCS who is the sole interpreter of the rules.

Foreign Places Visited by CAP Students (1996-2012):

• 2012 - (Scheduled) Madrid, Segovia, Toledo, Barcelona
• 2011 - London, Windsor, “Chunnel” Train, Paris, Versailles, Rome, Vatican City
• 2010 - Budapest, Vienna and Prague
• 2009 - London, Oxford, "Chunnel" Train, Paris, Versailles, Venice
• 2008 - Lima Peru, Cusco, Machu Picchu, Miraflores
• 2007 - Madrid, Toledo, Seville, and Granada in Spain; Evora, Sintra, and Lisbon in Portugal
• 2006 - Greece, London "Classical Greece"
• 2005 - London, Portsmouth, Normandy, Paris, Verdun, Luxembourg, Bastonge, Brussels "Remembering WWI and WWII, D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge"
• 2004 - Milan, Verona, Siena, Venice, Florence, Pisa, Rome, Vatican City, Pompeii "The History of Rome and Italy"
• 2003 - Cliffs of Moher, Kerry, Waterford, Rock of Cashel, Dublin, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Oxford, London "A Literary Tour of Ireland and England"
• 2002 - Beijing, the Great Wall, Xi'an, Shanghai "The History and Culture of China"
• 2001 - London, Oxford (visited secondary schools), Paris, Versailles (The Channel Tunnel) "The History, Theater, Art and Architecture of Two Great Empires"
• 2000 - Barcelona, Malaga, Gibraltar, Cueta, Tetuan, Tangier, Granada, Seville, Toledo, Madrid "The Diversity of Spain and Morocco"
• 1999 - Montreal, Quebec City "French Canada"
• 1999 - Rome, Florence, Pisa, Vinci, Assisi, Bologna, and Venice "The Roman Empire and the Renaissance"
• 1998 - Madrid, Toledo, Avila, Segovia, "The History of Spain"
• 1997 - Paris, Versailles "The Art and Architecture of Paris"
• 1996 - London, Windsor "The Royal History of England"