Name: Girls Empowered Leadership and Adventure – Boundary Waters Canoe Area
Start: 2022-08-16T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2022-08-25T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness

Girls Empowered Leadership and Adventure is for girls 14–17 years old interested in a multi-day wilderness experience and building skills and confidence in leadership and outdoor travel. Participants should also have interest in continued work with SOEI Girls Empowered programs. We ask that our Girls Empowered Leadership and Adventure participants commit to helping us lead our monthly programs for younger participants throughout the following school year.

On our trip, we will travel to northern Minnesota, car camp for one evening, and then paddle into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness for eight days. We will car camp for one more evening before heading home. Participants will learn skills in self-care, reading maps and compasses, communication, outdoor living, cooking, natural history, and leading groups. There will also be regular opportunities for art, stewardship, and reflection.

The itinerary includes at least six travel days as well as a day or two for rest. Participants will be led by two seasoned professionals with years of paddling, group, and outdoor experience.

Cost: $450 – $40 (sliding scale)
Event Location: Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
Event Dates: August 16–August 25, 2022
Max # of Participants: 7

Please Note: The Health Information Form must be turned in to SOEI Youth Programs in order to participate in the program. Please mail this in as soon as possible. If your participant has any allergies or dietary restrictions, feel free to send this information ahead of time to Katherine Jenkins at kjenkins@northland.edu. Forms can be mailed to SOEI Youth Programs, 1411 Ellis Avenue, Ashland, WI 54806. If you are not able to mail the form to us in a timely manner, you may bring it with you on the day of the program.

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Essential Eligibility Criteria

Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute outings and trips are open to all Northland College students, staff, and faculty who are able to meet the Essential Eligibility Criteria. Accommodations may be made as long as it does not compromise the health or safety of staff members or other participants or significantly alter the fundamental intended outcomes of the program.

Essential Eligibility Criteria are not intended to be exclusionary, but to honestly identify the basic and fundamental elements of outing or trip participation that are integrally tied to safety and risk management considerations. These criteria are the essential skills that each participant is required to perform for safety in each type of program offered and are applied equally to all potential participants.

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Please review the Participant Agreement carefully before signing. It contains important information about the programs at SOEI and Northland College, and affects the legal rights of participants and families in the event of an injury or other loss.

Participating in SOEI Youth Outreach programs may require being engaged in outdoor activities. Consequently, the participant might be exposed to certain risks due to the activities involved, unpredictable weather conditions, natural hazards, or human hazards. Participation in the program is entirely voluntary and involves a risk of injury and/or illness due to certain inherent risks that cannot be eliminated regardless of the care taken to avoid injuries, such as, but not limited to, contact with other individuals engaged in program activities, impact against objects, broken or improperly used equipment, weather hazards, environmental hazards, falls, falling objects, and separation from the group.

The speciﬁc risks vary from minor injuries, scratches, and sprains, to major injuries such as broken bones to catastrophic injuries. To minimize the risk of injury, the staﬀ needs to be aware of any existing physical, mental, or emotional conditions the participant may have that could in any negative way aﬀect, or be aﬀected by, participation in the activity. By signing this form you voluntarily agree to the following:

To assume full responsibility for any risks or loss, or personal injury, including death and damage to property that may be sustained by participating in the program; and
To release, waive, hold harmless, discharge it from any and all liability, and agree not to sue the person or entity responsible for administering the program, Northland College, or its trustees, oﬃcers, employees, participants, staﬀ, volunteers, and any other persons aﬃliated with the program, as well as their successors from all claims, losses, damages, and causes of action whatsoever, present or future, whether known, anticipated, or unanticipated arising out of, or incident to the participation in the program. This release is intended to be the most expansive release allowed under the applicable law. If any part of this release is deemed invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, the enforceability of the remainder of this release and agreement will continue in full force and eﬀect.
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SOEI Youth Programs are designed to provide experiences that promote learning and growth in a safe and positive environment. It is important for the wellbeing of all participants for the participant to cooperate with and follow the direction of program staff, instructors, and facilitators. By signing the Student Conduct Agreement, the participant will do their best to be a safe and respectful group member and will refrain from exclusive relationships or sexual or inappropriate physical contact with other participants. The participant also understands SOEI Youth Programs are drug-free, alcohol-free and smoke-free. The participant will behave in accordance with applicable federal and state laws, and abide by all expectations. Using drugs or alcohol during the program will automatically constitute an early dismissal from the program.

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As a parent/guardian, I have carefully read, understand, and voluntarily sign this Agreement and understand that I am surrendering certain legal rights for myself and for a minor Participant for whom I sign below. I acknowledge that it shall be effective and binding upon me, the minor Participant and our respective family members, heirs, executors, representatives and estates. All Participants fourteen years of age and over, and the parent(s) or legal guardian of any minor Participant (under 18 years of age) must sign below:

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Please note: cancellations made fourteen (14) days or more before the event will result in a full refund. Cancellations after fourteen (14) days receive no refund. However, at the discretion of the program coordinator, a refund may be offered. If SOEI Youth Outreach programs need to cancel a full refund will be issued.

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August 16–August 25

Girls Empowered Leadership and Adventure – Boundary Waters Canoe Area

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