Self-reliance, initiative and responsibility, craftsmanship and pride physical and emotional fitness and ability to embrace differences. Character Development & Personal Growth: Demonstrating an increase in self-knowledge and awareness perseverance courage and confidence.Learning from success as well as failure. Learning through Experience: Facilitating engaging relevant sequential experiences that promote mastery and incorporate reflection and transference.
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Outward Bound, founded by educator Kurt Hahn, is a non-profit educational organization and expedition school that serves people of all ages and backgrounds through challenging learning expeditions that inspire self-discovery, both in and out of the classroom. Students must learn to put their heads together to decipher charts and use compasses to navigate their way through the maze-like mangrove tunnels of the Florida wilds. During the week, students develop teamwork by navigating their way to sandy beaches, setting up camp, boarding up on canoes, cooking their own meals, and learning ‘Leave No Trace’ techniques to minimize their impact on the land.
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Eighth grade students have the opportunity to participate in a five-day Outward Bound excursion in the Florida Everglades’ Ten Thousand Islands.