During the Symposium 11 reports were presented by 14 speakers who represented 7 schools, of wihch 6 were public, one was International school, in addition to one public library, one Art Gallery and the Dodecanese Center of Educational Programs of the Ministry of Culture. 5 were elementary schools, 3 were of the secondary level and 2 Institutions worked with both levels. Two schools were Special.
Two of the speakers had given reports at earlier Symposia; everybody else spoke for the first time. Four papers came from the provinces: one from the island of Rhodes, one from Larissa, and two from Sparta. Two hundred teachers took part in the meeting, who came from all over Greece.

The program of speeches commenced with the report (Fitsilis G.) from the 119th Elementary school of Athens.The students of the 3rd grade wrote advertisements for contemporary ventures under the patronage of the gods. Among the suggestions of the students were a Nursery school (named) “Zeus”, a mobile phone company “Hermophon” and an open university named“Athena”.

The next speech (Nanopoulou D., Campion School, Elementary) introduced a project by all 8 classes who searched for the Olympic Gods at first on the Acropolis and after that in the Stoa of the Books, all with the final goal to create their own books. All the characteristics of the gods were incorporated in various kinds of books in a very resourceful way.

The following 4 announcements referred to programs that involved our museum kits. At the Central Public Library of Larissa (Mylona P.) 2400 students from all the schools of that prefecture worked with three museum kits over the time span of one month. In Sparta (Dounias S., 2nd Elementary School of Sparta, all grades) a special program was developed at the famous mosaic of Orpheus with the help of the museum kit: “Ancient Musical Instruments”. Also in Sparta at the Koumantareios Art Gallery (Kakourou-Hroni G.) within the frame work of the exhibition ”Greek Watercolors of the 19th century” involving the museum kit “A Greek Temple” a program took place, in which 1100 students participated. In the last paper, the museum kits traveled from the Dodecanese Center of Educational Programs at the island of Rhodes (Kefala K. & Platon L.) to the islands of the Dodecanese, where 628 students had a chance to experience working with them.

Two reports from Special schools that had visited the Acropolis followed. One of them (Voutsa O., Special Elementary School for deaf children in Filothei, Nursery and Elementary School) was specialized in hearing impaired children. The entire school participated, first in the project with the museum kits before the visit, then during the visit itself, and later at school with many projects that constituted a great exhibition. The monuments of the Acropolis in the eyes of emotionally disturbed children and the findings of a five-year study were the subject of the second report (Drosinou M., Special School for Mentally Retarded Children of Aigaleo and Special Classes at the area of Plato’s Academy and Kolonos Hill).

The next paper came from a Middle School (Oikonomou P. & Skourtelli R., Campion School, 1st grade Middle School), where the students in an attempt to make Biology class more interesting, studied the ancient plants and their myths in general as well as plant species from the Ancient Agora and their proximity to the monuments; they then proposed a list of plants that might have been cultivated on the Acropolis.

We finished the Symposium with the project of two High Interdisciplinary schools, one was an Interdisciplinary High School (Proios N., Interdisciplinary School of Alimos, 1st grade), where the students made scale models of sanctuaries while studying the ancient technology, the other was the Technical Professional High School (Koliopoulou A. & Relia E., 1st TPHS Piraeus, 2nd and 3rd grade) where the monuments were examined in an outstanding research project.