Alpha Omega Council-26.2 Foundation June 2023 Essay Recognition Event
at Hopkinton Center for the Arts.

Alpha Omega Council and 26.2 Foundation’s Boston Marathon Educational Program

“Since 2014, the Alpha Omega Council has conducted The Marathon Education Program in concert with the 26.2 Foundation, a non-profit organization marathoning, and leading the effot to establish The International Marathon Center in Hopkinton. This Program is supported by the Greek Consulate and The Examined Life-Teaching Greek in the Schools. This program promotes the Hellenic roots of the Boston Marathon and uses the Marathon and Greek History as a platform to teach middle and high school students about Ancient Greece, the roots of democracy, and it’s lessons for civic participation today.

This Program was launched in 2014 following the Boston Marathon bombings. Over 1,000 students have participated annually. The Program establishes: (i) a required essay by students on a topic relating to the Battle of Marathon, (ii) lectures for middle and high school students by local university classics and political science professors, and (iii) programming on Ancient Greek are for delivered by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The essays are entered into an essay contest and the winners and their families and educators are invited to participate in a special year-end celebration.

For 2024, Ashland Middle School, Boston Latin School, Boston Latin Academy and Hopkinton Middle School are participating. The Program’s goal remains to offer this Classical Greek cultural enrichment to all public middle schools along the Marathon route and then expand to other districts within Massachusetts.



2023-2024 Marathon Education Committee members:
Kim Chisholm, Jim Houhoulis, Tim Kilduff, Nick Kourtis-Chair,
Nick Moudios, Vaios Papadimitriou, Nicolas Prevelakis.