Link Community School, Newark, NJ -- Summer Session -- Link Expedition to The Island School

Link Community School
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Newark, NJ 07103
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Summer Session

Link Expedition to The Island School, Cape Eleuthera, The Bahamas
Each year, Link Community School selects 10 students to attend a one-week expedition to The Island School, in Cape Eleuthera, The Bahamas, during the summer session. This year's group of students, chaperoned by History Teacher Sergio Frisoli and Director of Institutional Advancement Maria Pilar Paradiso, engaged in expeditionary learning, including snorkeling, SCUBA and sea kayaking. These activities presented many fun and often challenging experiences that gave students a new awareness of their overall potential, their capacity for leadership, and their interrelationship with one another and their environment.

Click here to view a slideshow of photos from the 2005 Expedition.

Students also learned much about their host country while attending lectures on Geography, Geology and Island Formation; Tides, Currents and Moon Phases; Tourism and Development; Status of Conch and Nassau Grouper; as well as exploring island communities and the local environment. Furthermore students lived in The Island School's sustainable environment, which includes wind and solar systems, waste water gardens, water catchment systems, biodiesel production, and soil production--truly a "green campus." In so doing, students gained a greater appreciation for the resources and conveniences available to them at home and an understanding for issues regarding sustainability.

Link shares The Island School's vision "to be a community that fosters the development of responsible, caring, global citizens" and believes that by exposing students to such a powerful experience as The Island School, we will complement Link's own mission and thus provide for our young people an experience that will deeply affect and nurture their growth and development as citizens and future leaders of our planet.

Link Community School is especially grateful to the Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities for funding the 2005 Expedition and thus making this experience possible for our students.

Founded in 1999, by Chris Maxey and the Lawrenceville School, The Island School is an independent semester abroad program that aims "to be a community that fosters the development of responsible, caring global citizens by restoring a sense of wonder and respect for biotic and cultural complexity. Click here to learn more about The Island School.

Other Opportunities for Growth
Link has developed strong relationships with other organizations that provide students wonderful summer opportunities for growth, including Camp Border Collie, in upstate New York; Brantwood Camp in New Hampshire; Cultural Community Service Project in South Dakota (sponsored by Project USE); and Camp Agawam, in Maine. Link continues to seek other such experiences that provide students opportunities for enrichment and enable them to expand their horizons. These programs are offered by non-profit organizations at little or no cost to Link students.