Presidential Classroom

With Washington, D.C., as our classroom, our mission is to provide the highest quality civic education programs for outstanding high school students. For nearly four decades, more than 120,000 students from across the United States and around the world have attended Presidential Classroom’s week-long programs, gaining knowledge, insight and experience from this extraordinary educational opportunity.

Presidential Classroom offers a flagship civic education program, PC Scholars, as well as six specialized focus weeks, including Media and Democracy; Science, Technology and Public Policy; Law and Justice in a Democracy; Entrepreneurship and Global Business; National Security in a Democracy; and the Future World Leaders Summit. Interactive sessions with international policy-makers, diplomats, scientists, military leaders, journalists, public officials and others, teach students about the challenges and complexities of government and leadership.