East Coast Trip, 2025 - 26

***Announcement***

The due date for the 1st of the Tour of payments is coming up!

12 December, 2025 - First Tour Payment

$500

Please send your payments directly to

Mr. Steve Ewalt

(Cash/Check/Zelle)

To register for this tour, both sides of a signed Star Scholars Expedition Registration form must be submitted along with a non-refundable $200 Registration Fee to World Expeditions. It is highly recommended that you email both sides of form, and make a payment through Zelle, or with a credit card. Make sure that you only send legible, properly aligned PDF versions of the forms, not photos. Use a scanner or a scanner app on your phone. Send to expeditions@mac.com. Forms and payment may also be mailed to or dropped off at:

4312 Witherby St., San Diego, CA 92103.

There is an all-hours mail slot. Total Price is $3395 per student. There is an additional fee for the use of credit or debit cards. Total price consists of:

1. Registration Fee - $200. This fee covers expenses incurred by World Expeditions to register and make arrangements for students on this tour, and is separate from tour payments. It does not go towards paying for materials or services for the tour and is non-refundable, even if the tour is cancelled or fails to operate.

2. Tour Cost - $3195. Includes: Round trip airfare with one checked bag, 6 nights hotel (quad occupancy: 4 students/2 beds), all ground transportation via chartered motor coach, breakfast and dinner each day except on flights, all sightseeing and admissions as listed, tickets to a live theater show in New York, all taxes and gratuities, security guard nightly in the hotels, and off-duty teachers/staff as chaperones throughout the tour.

Payments: Check/Cash Credit Card Fee Due By Cancel/Disqualification Fees (see details below)

Registration Fee $200 $6 Nov. 12, 2025 * Non-refundable after Nov. 12

First Tour Payment $500 $15 Dec. 12, 2025 Check grades and cancel by 12/12. Fee is $200+

Second Tour Payment $1300 $39 Feb. 20, 2026 Check grades and cancel by 2/20. Fee becomes $400+

Final Tour Payment $1395 $42 Apr. 20, 2026 Check grades and cancel by 4/20. Fee becomes $600+

Please put these payment dates and amounts on your calendar now. It is your responsibility to make payments on time.

Connect to our Colonial History

Ever year, 8th grade students are invited to take a 7-day 6-night trip with their History Department peers for the East Coast Colonial History Tour.

Students visit cities such as Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. to name a few, following the promotion of their 8th grade year.

The tour is run by the World Expeditions educational travel service, with CPMA teachers as the chaperones. There is at least one adult for each 9 students.

The trip is intended as a 'Rite of Passage' for students. Unfortunately we cannot accommodate parents, not even as chaperones.

Plymouth/Boston, Massachusetts

Mystic Seaport, Connecticut

New York City, New York

Philadelphia/Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Harper's Ferry, West Virginia

Washington, D.C.

Mt. Vernon, Virginia

This once in a lifetime educational and character-building trip is open to all students who are in 8th grade at CPMA. This year's tour will take students and experienced educators during Summer to historic and cultural sites in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Gettysburg and Washington D.C.

Please contact Elivin Gueston II, CPMA ECT Organizer at eguestonii@sandi.net for more information.

*ALL APPLICANTS MUST MEET ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS (no “U” and no suspensions, no more than one “I” in citizenship, 2.0 academics) AND ALL DEADLINES MUST BE MET.

**THIS TRIP IS NOT SPONSORED, FUNDED OR SUPERVISED BY CPMA MIDDLE SCHOOL OR SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT. THE TRIP IS ORGANIZED BY WORLD EXPEDITIONS WITH THE HELP OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS. ALL TEACHERS ASSOCIATED WITH THE TRIP ARE NOT ON DUTY AND ARE NOT FUNCTIONING AS A DISTRICT EMPLOYEE. NO COURSE CREDIT IS GIVEN FOR PARTICIPATION ON THIS TRIP.

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