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Seventeen students from the Industrial Tech Club at Clarion-Goldfield-Dows High School and seven adult leaders left June 4, 2016, on a 10-day trip to Paris, England and Ireland.
Industrial tech teacher Craig Warnke has led the trips every other year since 2008. He said each one ties into the students’ classes, whether history, photography or architecture, but that the bigger lesson is seeing a different culture firsthand.
Paris was different this time. After the terrorist attacks the previous fall and flooding in June, Warnke said it was the least crowded he had ever seen the city. The group couldn’t visit the Louvre, which was moving art to higher floors to keep it away from moisture.
When the Eiffel Tower’s elevators turned out to be broken, some of the students talked Warnke into climbing the 704 steps instead.
Jill Ostrander writes for Clarion News Online.