We place great emphasis on our students learning about the world around them by actually experiencing the world around them. As such, we take them out into the community as often as we can, to interesting and enjoyable places throughout Rhode Island that allow them to see, touch, hear, and smell all kinds of new things, inviting them to connect the lessons they learn in the classroom to their application in the real world.
Our summer program, in particular, is unique in that the weather and fewer time constraints cooperate to open up more places and activities to experience and explore. Traveling and working in small groups of faculty and students for close supervision and highly personalized attention, we venture out together to discover and investigate many opportunities our students are unlikely to experience in their day-to-day lives, such as:
