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The Red Rocks of Utah

 
 

Summer Journal

  Join Us Aug 9 to Aug 21 2009  
  Because not all learning takes place in the classroom:
We take our cameras, our journals, and our minds, keen on looking and listening, to a uniquely American landscape. We want to know its nature, its history, its people. We journal and record people and places. By observing and experienceing the environment, we gain respect for it.

  We Are Youth:
   experiencing wilderness with structured challenge
   expressing our own vision with photography and writing
   learning about each other by shared exploration
   sharing outdoor adventure with peers
      under the guidance of trained instructors
   using creative vision to build a new relationship of respect
       to the environment
 
 

 

We do not believe that there should be a last child in the woods. Every child needs to be in the outdoors, to experience their environment. Understanding and appreciating the environment is the first step toward protecting it. We take expeditions to important environments, endangered or stressed, or unique in some other way. We encourage children to explore the environment, to observe it, reflect upon it, and think about it.


   
  Some expeditions stress extreme physical challenge but that is not necessarily for everyone. Summer Journal is a moderate physical challange with a stress on observation and reflection. The children learn to see using a camera and reflect using writing.
  Student Pictures from 2008