Travel / Exchange

CHS junior Zoë L. spent her fall semester at Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki, and this photo shows her enjoying a canoe trip on the Moose River!

Here is her personal reflection on the experience:

During the fall semester I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in the Maine Coast Semester Program at Chewonki. I, along with 42 juniors from across the country spent the semester learning all about the ecology of midcoast Maine. We also spent time working on the farm, camping, and exploring the woods around the school. Every week we got to practice our fieldwork skills in a different place along the coast, such as a salt marsh, and a bog. Some of my favorite parts were the field lab to Pemaquid point, the solo camping, and working on the farm after school. Even though a lot of the semester was different from past years due to covid-19, I was grateful to be able to have in person classes, and visit new places.

Sophomores, if you’re interested in learning more about Chewonki for your junior year get in touch with Meg!

Daniel reflects on his experience here:

“During the semester-long class I learned a lot about space exploration, NASA‘s previous and upcoming projects, engineering design processes, and wrote a ton of APA essays. During the summer academy, I spent four intense days planning a long-term habitation mission to Mars with the ‘Science and Surface Operations’ team. During those days there were presentations from subject-matter experts and even an astronaut.”

The Virginia Aerospace Science and Technology Scholars (VASTS) program is an interactive on-line science, technology, engineering and mathematics learning experience, highlighted by a seven-day residential summer academy at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.

Students selected to participate in the program are immersed in NASA-related research through interaction with scientists, engineers and technologists. The program is a partnership between the Virginia Space Grant Consortium, NASA Langley Research Center, The Commonwealth of Virginia and Industry.

Sophomore Yutika P. took the opportunity to explore a different environment at an urban private school within walking distance from the family home where she was staying in Seattle, WA. She found the schools to be very similar in terms of how classes are conducted, but at The Bush School there were many more students and a cafeteria! She sampled multiple classes such as environmental science, Latinx voices, Seattle statics and social justice, Spanish 5, and more. Yutika said the most important part of her experience with attending a different school in a city she had never been to before was relearning how to navigate through a situation surrounded by strangers.

CHS students can take advantage of amazing opportunities like this through our affiliation with the Network of Complementary Schools.

Sophomore Sophomore Jacob M. spent a bit over a week in St. Louis, MO, attending Mary Institute Country Day School. He stayed with an amazing family, and made a ton of new friends. He was able to continue many of his current classes, such as Chemistry, Pre-Calc, and US History, but also got to explore Sculpture and Video Editing as well. Our students can take advantage of amazing opportunities like this through our affiliation with the Network of Complementary Schools. spent a bit over a week in St. Louis, MO, attending Mary Institute Country Day School. He stayed with an amazing family, and made a ton of new friends. He was able to continue many of his current classes, such as Chemistry, Pre-Calc, and US History, but also got to explore Sculpture and Video Editing as well.

Our students can take advantage of amazing opportunities like this through our affiliation with the Network of Complementary Schools.