Student Development

Learning how to be a part of a team is an incredibly important aspect of developing as a person. Whether your students want to become a famous astronaut or an award-winning scientist, they’ll all need to understand the importance of being a team player. In this class section, your students will learn the power of teamwork through multiple means. Our instructors will give your students a short, personal lesson on how being (or not being) a team player affected them. Your students will also gain experience in working together through canoeing on our 90-acre lake. Lastly, they will play interactive, challenging team games requiring commitment from each student for their peers’ success. When your team succeeds, you succeed in the Teamwork class!

Every day of our lives, we extend trust to people and things we’ve never met or seen before. Whether it is the clerk behind the counter or the caramel between the chocolate, we expect specific responses from certain things. So why do we extend that trust to things we shouldn’t or refuse to extend it to things we ought? In our Trust class, your students will receive a short lesson on trust from one of our instructors. They will then test the trustworthiness of their equipment and operators as they go down the ziplines or up a climbing wall. Additionally, they will develop trust in their peers and teachers through playing games that require relying on others.

We often mistakenly believe that the mountaintop and valley experiences in our lives are the sole things defining our identity, forgetting the arduous steps we took to get there. It’s in the everyday that we determine who we are and who we are becoming. In the Identity class, your students will learn about themselves by reflecting on their individual life as well as their lives as a part of a group experience. Our instructors will give a brief lesson on group and individual identity, and after that, your students will split into teams to learn further about themselves through fun and introspection. We highly recommend this class for older students only.

What if I came up to you, said “Doinjefa intak alidnle,” and then walked away? It (hopefully) wouldn’t make any sense to you because from your perspective, what I told you was unordered and unrecognizable. Though we hardly ever babble undiscernibly to others, sometimes the outcome of our speech is just the same. It’s unordered and unrecognizable because we fail to effectively communicate our desires, goals, and logic to others. In the Communication class, your students will learn the importance of their verbal and non-verbal patterns of speech and actions. Our instructors will give a helpful lesson on how to better engage others in our words and actions. Afterwards, your students will have the opportunity to practice their skills through multiple games, each requiring a unique method of communicating to succeed.

It only takes a few years in this world to realize we don’t like how some people do things. I’m sure we all can recall the way our parents, teachers, or someone above us acted in a way we disagreed with, yet we were compelled to follow them regardless. However, we may not have known all the facts, feelings, and facets that influenced their decision. In our Leadership class, your students will learn how to lead and how to respect leaders. Our instructors will give a small lesson on the importance of leadership within a group and how to be an effective group leader. Once the talk is over, your students will be challenged to follow the orders of their peers in a series of low ropes activities and games.