Outdoor High School News
ODS is calling all soda pop drinkers! Frustrated with aluminum can pile-ups? Tired of plastic and glass bottles rolling about? Well, let ODS take them off your busy hands! Our staff has been contributing and gathering all types of redeemable cans and bottles for our fundraising-while-recycling project. Thus far, from our homes and students’ efforts we have recycled fifty dollars worth of recyclables to put towards our up-coming ODS adventures….
Due to our students’ dedication to our work projects, field education activities and responsibilities at school, we are planning a May SPIKE – a five day, four night coast or canoeing trip. In the spirit of community, a vote has decided three crews will head on three different water adventures – one on the coast, one canoeing, and one river rafting. In the coming months, all of ODS will be working together to raise the funds for these special trips, and cans and bottles are only the beginning….
Before the fun in May, all fifty-five students will complete - some for their first time – in-depth research papers. The excitement from researching topics of personal interest is inspiring papers on the controversies of artificial sweeteners, the music and politics of John Lennon and the history of motor cross racing, to name a few. Our students are also learning about the atrocities of the Rwandan genocide in global studies, the rules of physics in science class, catchy Johnny Cash tunes in guitar, page layouts in yearbook, kitchen skills in culinary class (students cook us our lunches!), four levels of math, running our school stor, and practicing hard on the Jackalopes basketball team. Our students manage all of this just in our classroom weeks…and the rest of the time we are all outside, rain or more rain or shine, working, hiking, and engaging in the community. However, the idea of an exhilarating outing in May is a reward well worth the wait.
Whether a work week, a field education week or a classroom week, every day at ODS contains an adventure. So we will continue to recycle cans, pull invasive blackberries and hike the buttes with the gleam of the upcoming water adventures in our eyes.
----Cans and bottles to be recycled can be left at the Outdoor School located at NYC.----
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