Our 5th graders spent most of last week at Northwest Maritime in Port Townsend ... and they even made the newspaper!

The Peninsula Daily News featured our students in a piece about education at the maritime education organization, mentioning some of the many activities students participated in throughout the week, and offering a detailed description of the launch of a boat students built—down to the bagpipes accompanying the event!

At Evergreen, starting in 1st grade each class heads out during the year on an overnight camp experience. First graders are only away for one night and there are many parent chaperones; as they get older, the time spent at camp increases and the level of challenge of camp activities grows too, but the goal of deeper connections among students and a chance to try new things in a new environment remains the same. In 8th grade, students spend much of the year working towards our signature Global Studies Program trip—four weeks together in a developing country, a capstone experience that Evergreen alumni carry with them far beyond graduation.