This holiday week, most of our students are spending Thanksgiving with their families. Those students spending the holiday with New Summit Academy have a week full of fun and celebration!

Activities include:

• Go Karting
• Stand-Up Paddle Boarding
• Whitewater Rafting
• Hiking in the Cloud Forest
• Swimming and Surfing at the Beach
  
  

And, of course, students and staff will collaborate in preparing and sitting down to a delicious, traditional Thanksgiving dinner!

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our extended family at New Summit Academy!

As of 2019, New Summit Academy passed the high standards set by the Outdoor Behavioral Health council and the Association for Experiential Education. We are so proud of all of our staff and students who made this a possibility.

A special thanks goes to Andy Myers, Experiential Education Director, and his amazing team - especially Eric Cano, Miguel Varela, Tom Hutten, Sam Forti, James Mas, and our other departments - Personal Growth, Administration, and Academics - who all made this possible with their never ending quest for high standards!

​Congrats, NSA!

This past week, our students have been engaged alongside out staff in working toward earning their Wilderness Advanced First Aid (WAFA) certifications. 

New Summit Academy has been pairing with the Wilderness Medicine Institute for years in facilitating this professional-level certification for students and staff as an opportunity to truly challenge themselves in an experiential, hands-on curriculum, as well as to help with our risk management during Integrated, Recreational, and International Aventuras. 

Throughout the week-long course, our dedicated WAFA instructors teach students how to recognize and respond to a variety of situations that include: 

- Risk management and assessment 
- Patient assessment techniques 
- Injury management 
- Common wilderness medical problems 

Each time students learned classroom content, everyone sprang into action, with half of our students and staff simulating medical emergencies on campus, and the other half acting as the first-aid responders, with the support of our teachers and instructors throughout the process. This is true (and very valuable) experiential education! ​

This month, NSA will celebrate the graduation of four young men, ready to venture into the world and experience continued success. 

After graduation, our students and staff will engage in a month of experiential learning, including the Wilderness Advanced First Aid (WAFA) certification course, international Aventuras to Peru and South Africa, and a SCUBA certification in Bocas del Toro, Panama.

Stay tuned for more updates on these once-in-a-lifetime opportunities! 
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