Each summer, we welcome high school students into the Project Foxfire Summer Program—a six-week, hands-on experience where we explore Appalachian culture, history, and storytelling together.
Project Foxfire
Project Foxfire
Our Project Foxfire Summer Program
Students receive hands-on training in journalism, writing, audio/visual technologies, historical crafts, and so much more. From conducting oral history interviews to capturing photos and writing stories, we learn by doing—and everything we create contributes to meaningful work that lives on, including Foxfire Magazine and other student-led projects that reflect the spirit of Appalachian leadership and creativity.
Project Foxfire is a paid opportunity open to 10–14 students each summer. As a team, we not only learn heritage skills and fieldwork techniques, but also grow as communicators, collaborators, and critical thinkers—skills that prepare us for life beyond high school, whether we’re headed to college, a trade, or something else entirely.
This year, we’re also taking on a new project: helping to construct an early Cherokee-style dwelling in the Children’s Village. Together, we’re building something lasting—both in the stories we tell and the memories we make.
