Moorestown Friends Junior Named to Prestigious NJ Scholars Program

From Moorestown Friends School:

Moorestown Friends School junior Ciani Green was recently accepted to the New Jersey Scholars Program (NJSP). Green, a Mount Laurel resident, is one of 39 New Jersey rising seniors who will be attending the five-week residential program at The Lawrenceville School this summer. This year’s program is called Immigration: Demographic Disaster or Cultural Recreator?

NJSP is an intensive inter-disciplinary academic summer program for 39 of the most intelligent, outgoing and highly motivated New Jersey residents who have completed their junior year and are “rising seniors,” entering their senior year in September. The five-week residential program takes place at The Lawrenceville School and is funded by private contributions.

The program teaches students to think in a new way, by relating disciplines instead of dividing them. The scholars participate in lectures and small-group seminars where they actively engage with the disciplines. They have extensive reading assignments and pursue research at world class libraries and museums. They write essays and work closely with a faculty member to produce a 10-15 page interdisciplinary research paper. They are also stretched as they hone their creative talents in arts, music, writing, drama and public speaking by contributing to an Arts Festival that is thematically related to the academic curriculum.

Students are nominated to the program by their schools and the rigorous application process includes writing essays, providing a paper submitted for a class and a letter of recommendation. as well as participating in a group interview. Students come from a broad ethnic and socio-economic cross-section of the state’s population creating a diverse learning community.