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22: 138:. The current major educational divisions include the Secondary School, Perrotis College (Κολλέγιο Περρωτής), the Primary School Program, the department of Adult Education & Research and the Greek Summer program. The school's mission is "to educate men and women, especially those from Greece and the Balkans, to become professionally accomplished in the latest aspects of agriculture and the life sciences." 195:
The Greek Summer program, started in 1970, is an intercultural exchange program for U.S. and international teenagers. The program is oriented toward community service, as students live with host families in a small Greek village and undertake a project to meet the village's evolving needs.
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The Secondary School offers girls and boys rural regions of Greece an accredited general high school education with practical focus on agricultural subjects. The students live in campus dormitories and follow an extracurricular program that reinforces strong traditions in Greek culture.
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House's mission was to "educate the whole individual: the head, the hands, the heart." The curriculum included practical training in field and garden crops, vineyards and orchards, livestock and silkworm production, and in industrial skills such as carpentry, masonry and blacksmithing.
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Perrotis College, founded in 1996 through a major gift of Aliki Perroti in memory of her husband, develops leaders for the global agriculture and food industry. The English-language curriculum leads to the awarding of the BSc degree, which is validated by the
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The Primary Education program focuses on environmental education through experiential learning. The curriculum gives young learners everyday contact with the natural world and with farming, and encourages hands-on experimentation and discovery.
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John Henry House with his wife, Susan Adeline Beers House, founded the American Farm School in 1904, on 50 acres (200,000 m) of barren land near Salonika,
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The department of Adult Education & Research offers short courses, seminars, workshops and conferences on sustainable rural development.
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Participants also explore ancient sights of Greece and climb
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The first students were Bulgarian boys orphaned in the
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