"I am very glad that the PACE program required us to take an academic component, and that I selected the Maryland’s Greenways class. Before taking this class, the environment was not really my forte... I came to this class with very little knowledge about the “nitty gritty” of environmental conservation and especially of green infrastructure. I am thankful for this course for making me want to get involved with the environmental issues both in my community and on the Eastern Shore. "

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"While I was always interested in politics I was certainly not passionate about them and singularly uninformed about them, especially in regards to local politics. The Presidential Citizen Scholar Program made my interests in politics blossom into a legitimate understanding." - Robert S. Garner

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"Meeting with local officials and political writers that reflected the grassroots non-partisan approach of PACE and the Presidential Citizen Scholars Program...gave me the opportunity to see the kind of citizens that truly care about local politics." - Stephen Weber

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"The PACE program does a nice job of making sure that students are ... thinking about civic engagement and are involved. The extra experiences have contributed to life-long lessons of citizen activism.  A positive and enlightening experience. "

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“I had little to no knowledge about politics or government. I also had no idea what a civic engagement was or how to get involved in one. This program really helped broaden my knowledge, experience, and ideas about politics and government.” - Cathy Korpacz

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"The chance to meet with Delegates was also very worthwhile and effective for many of us to get a chance to see firsthand what it was like to create laws and the difficulty that comes with making decisions that will affect not only you, but many others. This was something that if I wasn't in PACE I never would have had a chance to see and I definitely would not have been able to sit down and meet one-on-one with a Delegate as we did with Delegate Addie Eckardt." - Thomas Lynch Jr.

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