Solanco High School students experienced WWI history firsthand by digging trenches, enhancing their learning with real-world ...

A few miles away from the village of Noyelles-Sur-Mer, not far from the French coast, is a well tended World War One cemetery ... men from China were given the most menial of tasks: digging ...

literally! Over 500 students from various grade levels were digging trenches along the Solanco High School grounds on Thursday, April 18. Solanco social studies teacher Mike Miler calls it Trench Day.

The students started work on WWI-type trenches at 8 a.m., digging and shoring up their trenches, but the preparation started from the moment they woke up. “I started with a big, good breakfast ...