Students Depart for Service and Study Trips

Fifteen Upper School students are traveling this week in Costa Rica with Spanish teacher Erica Coffey and science teacher Shayna Cooke. Their trip blog is located here. Mrs. Cooke wrote on Saturday, "We arrived in San Jose this afternoon and transferred to La Selva Biological Station in the tropical lowlands for the next three days as the students get to explore the jungle via foot and boat tomorrow and spend the day working with field biologists on Monday. We will transfer back to San Jose on Tuesday to do some community service work in an outlying town, Tres Rios. We will also spend a day taking in the sights and sounds of San Jose, Costa Rica. The final leg of our journey will take us down to Manuel Antonio National Park where the kids will have the opportunity to spend the day on the beach learning to surf before heading to Santo Domingo where they will enjoy a game of soccer with a local school and an arts festival. We will be returning on Saturday, June 15 just in time for Father's Day."

A group of 11 rising sophomores left Sunday for our annual service trip to Washington, DC where they are volunteering with YSOP (Youth Services Opportunities Project). If you'd like to follow the journey as our students help those in need right here at home in our nation's capital, you can read their blog.

Twenty rising 8th Graders and five chaperones left Saturday, June 8 for Dungannon, Va. where they are volunteering this week with a variety of community projects. This is the seventh year Middle School students have had this opportunity. Their web page is located here.

Twenty-eight rising 9th Graders and three chaperones are traveling for a week out west in the Grand Canyon, Lake Powell and Zion areas.