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Parsvi Shah '24 Selected for NJ Scholars Program

Parsvi Shah ‘24 was selected for the 2023 New Jersey Scholars Program. Selection for this summer program is extremely competitive and includes an application, several essays and an in-person interview. 
 
The New Jersey Scholars Program provides a dynamic learning environment at the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, NJ, where 39 able and motivated high school students experience the life of the mind as they have never done before. Scholars plunge into an inter-disciplinary college-level five-week summer program, expanding their intellectual abilities by approaching the summer’s topic from many different directions. The Scholars learn and live together, stimulating and supporting each other as they wrestle with the challenges posed by this new approach to learning.
 
Each summer the Program investigates a specific area of study. This year’s program theme is “Into the Borderlands: Living and Learning Where Worlds Collide.” Past programs have included Greece in the Age of Pericles, Russian Studies, the Middle Ages, and the 20th Century. Each day begins with a lecture to the whole group, followed by morning and afternoon small group seminars where active participation is essential. Scholars have substantial reading assignments and also write extensively about inter-disciplinary connections.
 
Halfway through the Program, the Scholars embark on a field trip to an appropriate site for “hands-on” exposure to their area of study. The Scholars also perform in an Arts Festival incorporating drama, music, art, and creative writing for their parents and all past New Jersey Scholars. The academic experience culminates in a major inter-disciplinary research project.
 
Program Theme – Into the Borderlands: Living and Learning Where Worlds Collide
One thing that is undeniably true is that our world is in a constant state of change. In some senses, this change is physical and literal. The surface of the earth is forever changing its landscapes and waterways, and the impact humankind is making with its presence on this planet is increasingly contributing to the speed and scope of that change. Other changes are legal or political. For virtually all of recorded history some event – war, plague, famine, natural disasters – has displaced one population and pressed it up against another one, inevitably resulting in both cultural friction and syncretism. Even within a single culture, values and definitions of art and self-expression ebb and flow, and the combination of past works with future technology pushes artists in all genres to innovate new ways to share the human experience.  Even language itself morphs and evolves at a rate that is faster than it can be studied, in part because it is constantly adapting to the world it is tasked with conceptualizing.
 
How does one live in a world where the only constant is change? This summer’s coursework at The New Jersey Scholars Program will examine this question and many others, as a new class of rising seniors prepares to set out upon a globe that is immeasurably in flux.
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