I suggest you contact the Hay Creek Association in Berks County, PA.
They ran a week long program for middle school students for years and
they excavated almost an entire charcoal barn.  http://www.haycreek.org/

Keith 

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Subject: Youth archaeology programs

Histarchers,

I'm hoping that some of you might be able to help me out. The community
partners I am working with on a project here really want to get a summer
youth program going for kids to get more involved in archaeology. I
think we can mobilize resources to make it work, but I need more ideas
of how to structure this type of program. I am wondering if any of you
have experiences you could share of anything similar. This would be
something more than just a one day session, so I'm hoping that some of
you might have done week long (or longer) programs you could discuss.
There seem to be a couple of different routes that we could go down to
structure a program, so I would really like to hear about other
experiences and get some ideas of what might be most successful in terms
of the types of activities, ages of kids involved, structure of the day,
staffing etc.

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Thanks so much,
Sarah Croucher

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Sarah Croucher

Assistant Professor
Wesleyan University
Anthropology Department
281 High Street
Middletown, CT 06459
USA

Telephone: 860-685-4489
http://scroucher.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
http://beman-triangle.research.wesleyan.edu/