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Grant Spotlight: Comparative Government Students in Canada

By |2022-03-02T15:49:46+00:00June 4th, 2019|Spotlight - Grants|

Mr. McGuire's annual Canada trip is currently underway, and students are enjoying June weather in Ottawa and Toronto.  They recently visited the Office of the Speaker of the Senate, the Honourable George J. Furey, Q.C.  This is just one of the unique experiences Mr. McGuire curates for students on the trip, all of which will enrich their understanding of Canadian politics and culture.  The MLWGS Foundation supported this trip with a grant to offset the

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Grant Spotlight: 2018 AP Comparative Canada Trip

By |2022-03-02T19:00:52+00:00March 12th, 2018|Spotlight - Grants|

Canadian Senate Speaker George Furey with MLWGS students Spring means lots of Foundation funding for student travel.  This year, we committed to offsetting the cost of class-related trips for students traveling to Morocco (MENA senior seminar), Canada (AP Comparative Government), Phoenix (Math Modeling), and DC (We the People).  The combined enhancement grants for these four trips total just over $57,000, all of which goes to reduce or eliminate the cost for participating students and

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Grant Spotlight: 2017 AP Comp Gov Canada Trip

By |2022-03-02T19:54:39+00:00May 30th, 2017|Spotlight - Grants|

Photo Credit: Christian Diotte, House of Commons Photo Services© HOC-CDC, 2017 For the past several years, Matt McGuire has taken a group of his AP Comparative Government student to Canada so to enhance their understanding of Canadian governmental structures and procedures.  This year, the group visited the capital city of Ottawa and the Ontario provisional capital of Toronto.  Students attended an hour-long meeting with John Baird, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, as

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