WIESCO

Torun, Poland June 29 - July 26, 2012

In cooperation with
Polish American Connection
UNESCO and the National Education Office of Poland, WIESCO will organize a Summer Language Camp in Torun for about 110 high school students coming from all parts of Poland. In 2008, the fifteenth year at “XLO”/ Lyceum Number Ten was celebrated. The Camp is located very near the Centrum of the city. The facility had served as a military academy until it was chartered and established in 1993 as a specialized public high school with a strong focus on math, science, technology and preparation for university. The current principal, committed to modernization and innovation, has been with the school since its beginning and the Polish director for the language camp. This is a large gated facility with residence halls, classrooms, gymnasium, exercise room, and a large dining hall surrounding the parade ground.
Poland Graduation


Torun, for hundreds of years known as “the queen of the Wisla” (Vistula River), is a medieval town founded in the 13th century with ruins of a Teutonic castle and a Centrum dating to the middle ages with preserved walls, gates, townhouses and granaries. It is the birthplace of the scientist Nicholas Copernicus and site of a modern university bearing his name. Torun boasts a rich cultural history celebrated in its architecture, galleries and museums. During the summer music, theatre and film festivals are often hosted. The City of Torun, a “friendly” city, is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Charlene
If you are interested in working in Torun please contact camp director Charlene Kaletka Delaney. From 1966 to 2008 Charlene taught in Wisconsin, Hawaii and Minnesota. She won the Minnesota and Region III Teacher of the Year award in 1987, and was appointed by Governor Tim Pawlenty to the Minnesota Board of Teaching from 2004 to 2008. Charlene first taught in the WIESCO summer language camps in Zakopane, Poland from 1991 to 1993 and has been the director of the WIESCO camp in Torun, Poland since 1994. Charlene is currently the director of the Polish American Cultural Institute of Minnesota.