Adventure Academy

Adventure Academy is a partnership between 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant and Onward and Upward, a non-profit organization dedicated to experiential and holistic learning. We provide adventurous, cross-curricular classes that simultaneously develop students' physical, mental, and emotional skills in an experiential way. As a result, students earn credit for two courses at a time. Each five-week academy has a different focus and name, but will always incorporate physical challenges, mindfulness, and trust building activities. The academy meets in 5-week sessions, and then transition to a new focus of study. Students can participate in one academy session and be done, or roll into the next academy session for two more classes. Students can only participate in two five-week sessions to allow other students to take advantage of the opportunity.

Requirements:

- Students and Parents/Guardians must sign a participant agreement form

- Parents/Guardians must sign a field trip approval form

- Participation and in-person attendance are mandatory

Benefits:

- Accelerated credits

- Multiple instructors

- Hands-on learning with exciting challenges, such as the ropes course, archery, and hiking

- Leadership and character building

Information about the Onward and Upward non-profit organization:

Adventure Based Education:

We offer programs that actively encourage students to step outside their comfort zones in order to discover their strengths.

Challenge by Choice:

Students are respected and empowered by choosing their own level of participation in the challenges we provide on different courses.

Holistic Approach:

We offer a variety of courses that provide different focuses, but all emphasize our core curriculum, designed to help students develop skills that enhance overall wellbeing. We focus on increasing self awareness, acting with mindfulness, building authentic relationships, building self confidence, setting goals, creating purpose, solving problems and being physically active.

Experiential Learning:

Experiential education is a philosophy that informs many methodologies in which educators purposefully engage with learners in direct experience and focused reflection in order to increase knowledge, develop skills, clarify values, and develop people's capacity to contribute to their communities.