( KNZA )-The Hiawatha Board of Education Monday evening voted to reinstate the Hiawatha High School Biology Club’s trip to a research center in the Bahamas for next school year.
Acting on the requests of several parents, High School Science Teacher and Biology Club Sponsor Chris Vitt asked the board to reinstate the trip for May 2014.
Vitt says he has agreed to again serve as the trip sponsor, and has made a three year commitment,if parents take the lead in funding raising for the trip...( play audio )
A parents group is being formed to lead the fund raising efforts.
Vitt asked the board to keep the trip as a school sponsored trip as in past years and that students be offered one-quarter credit for the course.
Vitt said the trip has been offered to students for almost twenty years... ( continue audio )
Vitt said the trip will be available to seniors only. He told the board 28 current junior students have expressed an interest in taking the trip next school year.
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