OEP Activities

The Outdoor Education Program (OEP) plays a significant role with orientation, leadership training, and student activity opportunities throughout the school year.

The ninth-grade orientation program revolves around the outdoor world. Ninth graders spend their first night at the school in tents while getting used to campus life, and take part in hiking, canoeing, and bicycling as part of the orientation process. This time is also a significant leadership opportunity for many of the school’s student leaders who have honed their leadership skills with activities, initiatives, and their own orientation in the outdoors.

Toward the end of spring term, the OEP puts on the Adventure Challenge, an on-campus race using bicycling, canoeing, and orienteering skills for two-person student/faculty and four-person student leader teams.

In the fall and spring terms, OEP coordinates Hogger disc golf tournaments for the NMH community.

Outdoor instructors are also available to supervise independent physical education studies, to oversee student club activities such as canoeing and cross-country skiing, and to facilitate any outdoor experience a classroom teacher may have in mind.