WASHINGTON D.C.
Tentative Schedule
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Sunday
4-6pm Registration & Unpack 7pm Session 1 9:30pm Group Debrief 11pm Curfew |
Monday
8am Session 2 10:30am Session 3 12:30pm Lunch & Excursion 7pm Session 4 9:30pm Group Debrief |
Tuesday
9am Session 5 11:30am Impact Project Planning 1pm Dismissal |
Group Debrief Times
Both evenings are capped off by student discussions with a final discussion at the end of the conference. Printed discussion guides are provided to assist the group in self-reflection and creating an action plan for the group to use what they have learned to impact their school and community.
PRICING
ACSI Member Schools Non-Member Schools
School Registration $75/school $150/school
Student & Advisor Ticket $90-100/person* $124-134/person*
Quad Occupancy Hotel Room $158/night $158/night
DC Excursion (optional) $25/person $25/person
Boxed Lunch (only for excursions) $12/each $12/each
Conference T-Shirt (optional) $12/shirt $12/shirt
School Registration $75/school $150/school
Student & Advisor Ticket $90-100/person* $124-134/person*
Quad Occupancy Hotel Room $158/night $158/night
DC Excursion (optional) $25/person $25/person
Boxed Lunch (only for excursions) $12/each $12/each
Conference T-Shirt (optional) $12/shirt $12/shirt
Use this Estimated Cost Per Person Spreadsheet to determine total cost including optional excursions, meals, and transportation.
*Ticket prices vary depending on seating selection.
*The member ticket price increases to $125/person if you are not lodging at the conference hotel.
*Ticket prices vary depending on seating selection.
*The member ticket price increases to $125/person if you are not lodging at the conference hotel.
Deadlines
September 15, 2022 School Registration
October 15, 2022 Individual Ticket Reservation and 40% of Final Payment
October 26, 2022 Media Releases Due
November 20, 2022 Remaining 60% of Payment
October 15, 2022 Individual Ticket Reservation and 40% of Final Payment
October 26, 2022 Media Releases Due
November 20, 2022 Remaining 60% of Payment
Registration resources
Each registered school will receive student selection guidelines, promotional tools, and a resources to be used for pre-conference student preparation. All information will be emailed to the coordinator listed on the school registration form, but resources are available as soon as you submit your school registration.
D.C. Excursion Options
NOTE: The following descriptions give an example of the quality and depth of the D.C. Excursions, but the 2022 excursions will not be finalized until September.
Professional Christian guides will lead each excursion. Transportation via coach bus is included with the excursion ticket ($25/participant.) Boxed lunches are strongly recommended. Groups will not have time leave to eat at a restaurant before the excursion buses leave the hotel.
Professional Christian guides will lead each excursion. Transportation via coach bus is included with the excursion ticket ($25/participant.) Boxed lunches are strongly recommended. Groups will not have time leave to eat at a restaurant before the excursion buses leave the hotel.
Choices Have Consequences – Experience the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – The word Holocaust is of Greek origin meaning to sacrifice by fire and marks the catastrophic persecution of approximately six million Jews during the years of 1933-1945. An extensive visit to this museum designed as a living memorial to the Holocaust, provides us with the history leading up to the events that allowed the perpetration of such evil, lessons on the fragility of freedom, the price of the loss of freedom, and the results of unchecked hatred. We are also challenged to action as we witness the lives of those who were not willing to stand on the sidelines during this time of persecution and destruction. Given the choice to look the other way, or risk their own life by getting involved, we learn the stories of men and women who were willing to take heroic action against evil. Knowing and understanding history encourages the learner to respond to the call to action in his or her own generation. How will you respond to your own call to action to prevent the progress of evil?
If you keep quiet at a time like this, deliverance and relief for the Jews will arise from some other place, but you and your relatives will die. Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this? Esther 4:14 (NLT)
Some Gave All - Pay tribute at Arlington National Cemetery, Iwo Jima ~ The United States Marine Corps Memorial, The United States Air Force Memorial
Throughout our nation’s history, men and women have put their lives on the line to defend the freedoms that we as Americans cherish. As we walk through Arlington National Cemetery we are struck with the reality of SACRIFICE. We look out over the hills filled with the graves of over 400,000 American soldiers and we feel the debt owed to those who gave all. A highlight of Arlington is the famous Tomb of the Unknowns. Here tomb guards – soldiers from the 3rd U.S. Infantry of the Army, guard a white marble tomb 24/7. The tomb contains the remains of three unidentifiable U.S. solders gathered from the battlefields of World War I, World War II and the Korean War. At the north end of the cemetery, we will visit the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial or the ‘Iwo Jima’ Memorial. Here you will see the iconic statue of the 5 Marines and 1 Navy corpsman raising a flag over the island of Iwo Jima. On the south end of the cemetery, we will see the Air Force Memorial paying respect and tribute to the Airmen of the U.S. Airforce who died and served in the wars. Freedom is costly and dear, and as we walk these memorial sites we can ask ourselves if we live a life appreciative of the sacrifice paid by others.
There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:13 (NLT)
The Impact of One Life – We all will leave a legacy. Discover the legacy of Thomas Jefferson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr, and Abraham Lincoln. Four different memorials, four different lives, one common thread: VISION. These world-changers had the vision to see beyond their immediate sight to what could be – the vision to dream and then take action to see those dreams become reality for future generations. Discover the passion of Martin Luther King Jr to bring about change through non-violence as you read his writings at the memorial dedicated to his legacy and then read his famous, ‘I Have A Dream’ speech on the steps of the nearby Lincoln Memorial. Learn about Abraham Lincoln’s vision for a ‘more perfect Union’ based on equality for all. At the F.D.R. memorial we will learn of Roosevelt’s vision of mankind’s entitlement to the Four Freedoms. Finally, we capture the vision that Thomas Jefferson had – a nation of free people – ‘endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights’. As we see the impact of these four lives on our nation, what legacy will your life’s vision leave for the generations that follow you?
According to the grace of God, which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it. 1 Cor. 3:10 (NASB)
Off the Beaten Path – A Collection of Unique Memorials Not Usually Seen.
Throughout our capital city of Washington, D.C., are some unique memorials that the average tourist usually does not see. The first is the Trylon of Freedom a three-sided column that features base relief representations of the freedoms exemplified by the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, with the three sides representing the division of power among the three branches of the Federal government. Just down the street is The Victims of Communism Memorial a 10-foot-tall replica of the “Goddess of Democracy” which was erected by students during the Tiananmen Square protests if 1989 in China. The memorial is a tribute to over 100 million people who died because of revolutions, wars, and atrocities committed by different communist regimes. Around a nearby corner is the Holodomor Memorial which honors the millions of victims of the manmade famine that occurred in Ukraine in 1932–1933 under the direction of Soviet commander Joseph Stalin. The next stop is The National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II. This memorial reminds us of the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during WWII due to hysteria and prejudice. Despite the injustice done to them by their own country, they still felt compelled by a sense of loyalty and duty to fight for our country. Finally, we visit the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial The memorial, which honors the sacrifice of the 2.9 million forces who were disabled in service to this country across all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces. Although somewhat unconnected, these memorials give us an appreciation for the triumph of the human spirit through strong adversity and justice. Do feel you have the ability to show the qualities of being just and morally right?
“He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God” Micah 6:8
If you keep quiet at a time like this, deliverance and relief for the Jews will arise from some other place, but you and your relatives will die. Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this? Esther 4:14 (NLT)
Some Gave All - Pay tribute at Arlington National Cemetery, Iwo Jima ~ The United States Marine Corps Memorial, The United States Air Force Memorial
Throughout our nation’s history, men and women have put their lives on the line to defend the freedoms that we as Americans cherish. As we walk through Arlington National Cemetery we are struck with the reality of SACRIFICE. We look out over the hills filled with the graves of over 400,000 American soldiers and we feel the debt owed to those who gave all. A highlight of Arlington is the famous Tomb of the Unknowns. Here tomb guards – soldiers from the 3rd U.S. Infantry of the Army, guard a white marble tomb 24/7. The tomb contains the remains of three unidentifiable U.S. solders gathered from the battlefields of World War I, World War II and the Korean War. At the north end of the cemetery, we will visit the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial or the ‘Iwo Jima’ Memorial. Here you will see the iconic statue of the 5 Marines and 1 Navy corpsman raising a flag over the island of Iwo Jima. On the south end of the cemetery, we will see the Air Force Memorial paying respect and tribute to the Airmen of the U.S. Airforce who died and served in the wars. Freedom is costly and dear, and as we walk these memorial sites we can ask ourselves if we live a life appreciative of the sacrifice paid by others.
There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:13 (NLT)
The Impact of One Life – We all will leave a legacy. Discover the legacy of Thomas Jefferson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr, and Abraham Lincoln. Four different memorials, four different lives, one common thread: VISION. These world-changers had the vision to see beyond their immediate sight to what could be – the vision to dream and then take action to see those dreams become reality for future generations. Discover the passion of Martin Luther King Jr to bring about change through non-violence as you read his writings at the memorial dedicated to his legacy and then read his famous, ‘I Have A Dream’ speech on the steps of the nearby Lincoln Memorial. Learn about Abraham Lincoln’s vision for a ‘more perfect Union’ based on equality for all. At the F.D.R. memorial we will learn of Roosevelt’s vision of mankind’s entitlement to the Four Freedoms. Finally, we capture the vision that Thomas Jefferson had – a nation of free people – ‘endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights’. As we see the impact of these four lives on our nation, what legacy will your life’s vision leave for the generations that follow you?
According to the grace of God, which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it. 1 Cor. 3:10 (NASB)
Off the Beaten Path – A Collection of Unique Memorials Not Usually Seen.
Throughout our capital city of Washington, D.C., are some unique memorials that the average tourist usually does not see. The first is the Trylon of Freedom a three-sided column that features base relief representations of the freedoms exemplified by the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, with the three sides representing the division of power among the three branches of the Federal government. Just down the street is The Victims of Communism Memorial a 10-foot-tall replica of the “Goddess of Democracy” which was erected by students during the Tiananmen Square protests if 1989 in China. The memorial is a tribute to over 100 million people who died because of revolutions, wars, and atrocities committed by different communist regimes. Around a nearby corner is the Holodomor Memorial which honors the millions of victims of the manmade famine that occurred in Ukraine in 1932–1933 under the direction of Soviet commander Joseph Stalin. The next stop is The National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II. This memorial reminds us of the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during WWII due to hysteria and prejudice. Despite the injustice done to them by their own country, they still felt compelled by a sense of loyalty and duty to fight for our country. Finally, we visit the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial The memorial, which honors the sacrifice of the 2.9 million forces who were disabled in service to this country across all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces. Although somewhat unconnected, these memorials give us an appreciation for the triumph of the human spirit through strong adversity and justice. Do feel you have the ability to show the qualities of being just and morally right?
“He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God” Micah 6:8