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programs:   Muncaster   Challenge   Program (Montgomery   County Public   Schools   alternative  program) and Kiamsha   Youth Organization, Inc.    It also supports one multi-state (VA, DC, MD) program:   The  Network to  Freedom  Saturday Academy  Program.
The  Muncaster Challenge Program has worked in cooperation with Choice Middle Schools  and has very actively used the Underground Railroad as a basis for study in Math, Science, History, English and conducted living history programs.     In addition to  other notable accomplishments,   students   of Muncaster  Challenge  have  been featured on public  television and several  local  area television channels  through  special  features  and in interviews  and were the cover story for the February-1998, edition of "Cable In  The Classroom."    In May, 1999, they were the first in Metropolitan DC history to reenact a portion of the Pearl Affair on the Potomac.    Each of these programs  has  received national  attention  and  has  been flagship   programs   for  other   schools   and  organizations.
The youth of Kiamsha have produced the master for a musical CD (though they were stifled by lack of funding to go further) which captures  elements  of the history  of slavery and the flight to  freedom with  a  modern  day  message  of encouragement and motivation  for