Grades 9-12

July 26-August 2 2008
(8 days)

Undergraduate Credits Available: 1 Credit in Environmental Leadership through Northland College.

Live and learn on Lake Superior, the world’s largest freshwater lake! Build your leadership skills on our low and high ropes courses and climbing towers. Immerse yourself in the Lake Superior environment. Explore estuaries, kayak to sea caves, and investigate the lake’s critical issues from social, environmental, and economic perspectives. Help haul in nets and fish aboard the Wolverine II, a commercial fishing boat that trolls around the Apostle Islands. Interact with Chippewa tribal elders and educators as they share their culture along the lake, and in sacred fishing and ricing waters. Join you peers to learn with Northland College faculty, Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute staff, guest speakers, community leaders, and field counselors.

Build upon your strengths, explore your passions, and take action in your community!

Each Session can hold 40 students, which are then divided into four small groups of 10 students.

Each small group stays together throughout the week, and is assigned a highly trained field counselor that accompanies them day and night throughout their experience. During some field experiences the entire group is together, as well as every night. These small groups allow you quality time with each other, and with the instructors, professors, and other staff.