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- Homestays: Various families throughout the community
welcome students into their homes to share a few hours every
Sunday with their family. Students eat dinner, play with the
kids, walk through town, go grocery-shopping, or participate in
any other typical activity in the daily life of a Costa Rican family.
These loving families make our students feel more like sons
rather than guests, and it can be one of the most impacting
experiences of a young person’s life.
- Internships: Various businesses throughout town help train
and mentor students who have special interests in job
opportunities, giving them the opportunity to see first-hand
how businesses function in a small Central American
community.
| Cultural Immersion: Home stays & Internships |
On the weekends, students can plan and sign up for various
to:
to:
- local sports events
- canopy tours
- nature hikes
- excursions to nearby beaches
- trips to nearby towns for movies or shopping
- paintball
- swimming
- basketball or soccer tournaments
- surfing trips
- local festivities
- white-water rafting
- rock-climbing
| Weekend Activities / Recreation |
Experiential Education Personal Ecology treks are an integral part of the education
New Summit Academy of Costa Rica provides.
Why?
By challenging students to take healthy risks doing things they have never done before,
students learn to support each other, empathize, and become a team to help each
other through difficult times. Once completed, students return to campus with a
new-found sense of self-esteem, pride, and a realization that they are stronger.
Who?
All students participate in treks. Staff members are also chosen to participate in the
adventure trips based on the academic and therapeutic objectives set for the trip.
New Summit Academy of Costa Rica provides.
Why?
By challenging students to take healthy risks doing things they have never done before,
students learn to support each other, empathize, and become a team to help each
other through difficult times. Once completed, students return to campus with a
new-found sense of self-esteem, pride, and a realization that they are stronger.
Who?
All students participate in treks. Staff members are also chosen to participate in the
adventure trips based on the academic and therapeutic objectives set for the trip.
| Community Service |
help set up and follow through on project goals.
Examples of projects:
Examples of projects:
- Teaching swimming lessons to local kids
- Teaching English to local children
- Recycling
- Sea turtle conservation
- PenPal Program
- Building bus stops
- Painting local schools & clinics
- Building houses
- Library project
- Environmental Conservation Projects
- School beautification projects
- Click here to see pictures from Habitat for Humanity Project
When?
Mid-Quarter Personal Ecology Treks: At Midterm of every quarter, students and staff pack their
backpacks and take off on a 4-6 day Costa Rican adventure. Each trek has specific academic,
therapeutic, and experiential education objectives. Students trek their way through the four
standard Personal Ecology treks:
Mid-Quarter Personal Ecology Treks: At Midterm of every quarter, students and staff pack their
backpacks and take off on a 4-6 day Costa Rican adventure. Each trek has specific academic,
therapeutic, and experiential education objectives. Students trek their way through the four
standard Personal Ecology treks:
Recreational Aventuras: At the end of every quarter, students are offered a fun and educational
recreational Aventura. Be it a turtle-saving project, a scuba-diving trip, a hike through the
rainforest to visit a shaman’s house, or some leisurely sport-fishing, students will be taking
healthy risks and building confidence and skills by challenging themselves and each other to
do things they have never done before.
Where?
From the diversity of flora and fauna in the Costa Rican rainforest to the brilliantly diverse ocean
waters along the coast to the local coffee and banana plantations, Costa Rica offers a rich
laboratory for learning and growing.
Examples:
recreational Aventura. Be it a turtle-saving project, a scuba-diving trip, a hike through the
rainforest to visit a shaman’s house, or some leisurely sport-fishing, students will be taking
healthy risks and building confidence and skills by challenging themselves and each other to
do things they have never done before.
Where?
From the diversity of flora and fauna in the Costa Rican rainforest to the brilliantly diverse ocean
waters along the coast to the local coffee and banana plantations, Costa Rica offers a rich
laboratory for learning and growing.
Examples:
- Swift Water Certification Course
- Wilderness First Responder Course
- Climbing Mount Chirripo
- Scuba Diving in Drake's Bay
- Touring Volcano Arenal & Volcanic Hot Springs
- Visiting Indigenous tribes near Puerto Viejo
- Golfo Dulce Sea Kayaking Trek: Sea kayaking & camping with an academic
inventory. CLICK HERE to see Aventura #1 itinerary for 2005 - Corcovado National Park Hiking & Camping Trek: Hiking & camping with an
academic focus in forest ecology & a therapeutic focus in family diversity &
dynamics. CLICK HERE to see pictures from Aventura #2 - Cloud Forest / Rafting Hiking, Camping & Rafting Trek: Hiking and camping
with an academic focus in biomes & community diversity & a therapeutic focus
on community dynamics and means of action. CLICK HERE for pictures - Mount Chirripo Climbing Trek: Climbing Chirripo summit with an academic
focus on natural resource management and a therapeutic focus on
independence and maintenance of success skills.
All students participate in a weekly homestay or internship. This is a first-hand look into Costa
Rican family and business life. Not only do these experiences facilitate using and practicing
Spanish, they give the students valuable family and work experience.
Rican family and business life. Not only do these experiences facilitate using and practicing
Spanish, they give the students valuable family and work experience.
New Summit Academy Costa Rica
Experiential Education: Building interactive skills
through cultural immersion, fun & healthy risk-taking activities!
through cultural immersion, fun & healthy risk-taking activities!