About the Project

This proposal asks to fund 3 canoe camping trips that will set students up for a fantastic 2020-21 school year and beyond. It would be like Yale’s FOOT (Freshman Outdoor Orientation Trips) for 40-50 6-8th graders who might need a little help connecting to school. Two of the 3-day campouts will take place in July and August just prior to school starting, if Covid-19 closures are over by then, and the third will take place during our Sept. break. Due to the Covid-19 outbreak of 2020, my students lost 53 days of “theoretical teaching” during the 2019-20 year, so by taking challenged students canoe camping for a few days, that time can be made up, even improving academic and life trajectories, lifelong.