Viewfinder: South Korea Students Visit Chattahoochee Tech

Twenty-seven South Korean high school students are visiting the U.S. as part of the 2011 Experience America Camp, a program that brings students from Seongdong Gu, South Korea to the U.S. for three weeks to work on English skills and visit various sites around North Georgia.

The students, most age 16, got to tour Chattahoochee Technical College’s Mountain View Campus in Northeast Cobb and see the college’s popular television production, digital media, interior design and culinary arts programs. From experimenting with a green screen and camera to tasting cookies in the culinary kitchen, the students related their experiences back to recent field trips to CNN and local restaurants.

The students enjoyed a traditional southern lunch with fried chicken and mashed potatoes at the college.

This is the second year for the program that is hosted by Marietta City Schools and Chattahoochee Technical College. The students are selected from area high schools in South Korea based on their English scores from earlier education. The three weeks include intensive English courses at Marietta High School in writing, reading and speaking the language. Additionally, the students have visited museums, amusement parks, athletic events and even shopping malls throughout the area. For the last part of their journey, students were paired with host families from Marietta High School where they stayed and enjoyed learning about life in a Georgia home.