AUBURN — Saint Dominic Academy ninth-grade student Emma Skelton will travel to Denmark for 22 days this summer as a delegate for the Children’s International Summer Villages Program, a peace-oriented camp.

CISV is a leadership organization that develops cross-cultural understanding in children, youths and adults around the world. It also promotes peace, friendship and understanding.

Each year students from around the world come together at the retreat, where they begin to understand cultural differences and discuss problems that exist among cultures.

Thirty-six students, including Skelton, will spend more than three weeks together and build new relationships, cross language and culture gaps, and discuss global topics. Skelton attended a similar camp through CISV two years ago in France.

“I’m excited to go,” said Skelton. “I look forward to meeting my peers around the world. It will be interesting to see because they are going through the same things I am but in a different country. I don’t know if we will be able to communicate because of the language differences, but I want to try and make a lot of memories and new friendships.”

Last fall Skelton was published in the 2015 Young Authors Camp’s Young Words publication. She has been writing short stories since fifth grade and hopes her experience in Denmark will inspire future story ideas.

“Emma is absolutely an amazing person, one of several that we need to continue to acknowledge and develop here at St. Dom’s,” said Marty Bressler, Skelton’s world geography teacher. “She is an exceptional writer and is part of an amazing group of freshmen that will positively define the school over the next four years.”

FMI: www.cisvusa.org.