Summer Programs - Adventure-Wilderness Discovery

Action Quest

http://www.actionquest.com/

"For over 40 years, we've consistently delivered outstanding water-based summer adventure programs for teens. By combining hands-on learning, cooperative living and adventure travel throughout the world, we have successfully ignited the inherent leadership skills within thousands of young adults."

Bold Earth Adventure Camps (multiple locations, US and overseas)

https://boldearth.com/

"Let’s journey somewhere incredible you’ve never been, where you’ll accomplish amazing things with new friends you’ll never forget. This isn’t just an awesome vacation or a next-level camping trip. It’s a place where adventurers are born."

Camp Seagull/ Camp Seafarer

http://www.seagull-seafarer.org/

Drexel Environmental Science Leadership Academy

http://www.drexel.edu/bees/summerscience

"Drexel's weeklong Environmental Science Leadership Academy is one part adventure travel, one part leadership training, and two parts environmental science field experience. Students will habitat-hop from seaside, to salt marsh, to maritime forest, all along the New Jersey coastline, gaining hands-on experience in a range of research areas, including beach, marsh and Pine Barren ecology, botany and paleontology. The "tour guides" on this adventure will be all-star Drexel professors and expert scientists from the nation’s oldest natural history museum, the Academy of Natural Sciences. Students will gain a broad understanding of what it means to be an environmental scientist and what it takes to be a leader in the field.

Based at the Barnegat Bay Field Station in Ocean Township, NJ, the Environmental Science Leadership Academy opens with a canoe trip through the Pine Barrens and ends with a fossil dig with Drexel paleontologist Dr. Ken Lacovara, whose world-class Mantua dig site has been featured on the Discovery Channel. Through a combination of theory-based courses and a lot of hands-on experience—the heart of a Drexel education—students will bond together through a research-rich summer adventure that will open the door to a future in environmental science and related fields."

Eligibility:  rising juniors and seniors

$1000

Outward Bound Costa Rica

http://outwardboundcostarica.org

"Outward Bound Costa Rica inspires and develops leadership, compassion, intercultural understanding, respect for the environment, and a commitment to serve through adventure-based programs led by a highly skilled, safety-conscious staff."

National Outdoor Leadership School

http://www.nols.edu/

Wilderness Ventures

http://www.wildernessventures.com/

"For the past 39 years we have dedicated ourselves to helping teens become responsible adults through challenging and meaningful teen outdoor adventures.

Today’s young people are inundated with video games, instant messaging, cell phones and computers. It is oftentimes difficult to convince them that escaping these comforts of home will open up to them a new world, far more fun than the one left behind. Our students experience beauty beyond description, and become valuable contributors to our small groups. They establish lifelong friendships and many discover who they really are for the first time in their lives."