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Summer Program

Connecticut River Student Coalition Outdoor Expedition

Three canoes rest on a grassy bank in the foreground, while a group of people gathers near camping gear beside a wide, flowing river under a partly cloudy sky in the background.

 

A partnership with Deerfield Academy and Loomis Chaffee, the Connecticut River Student Coalition Outdoor Expedition is an interdisciplinary learning adventure along one of New England’s most prominent ecological features.

The 10-day trip begins with a place-based training and orientation program in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom before students depart the Connecticut’s headwaters by canoe, paddling south past the three campuses by canoe. Along the way, you’ll stop at prominent sites and meet with local experts in art, geology, hydrology, and Indigenous history and culture.  

By the trip’s end, you’ll have developed an intellectual, emotional, and embodied understanding of the watershed as both a socioecological entity and a metaphor for something larger: a paradigm for living well in a place wherever you go.

 

Two young women are setting up a tent on a grassy field, with trees and sunlight in the background.
A group of people in canoes paddle on a calm lake with lush green mountains in the background under a cloudy sky.
A person in a red hoodie and a cap tends to a small fire on a metal surface, with a blurred background of trees and a body of water.
A group of young people sit in a circle on the grass, looking at a map spread out before them, with trees and greenery in the background.