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Ninth-grade students participate in annual Everglades Experience

RE ninth graders extended a decades-long tradition by participating in the annual four-day, three-night trek through the Ten Thousand Islands. The Everglades Experience with North Carolina Outward Bound School was the culminating event of their fall and winter physical education curriculum, which included bay studies, navigation and canoeing. The students traveled to Everglades City in three waves, with the first group departing in early January and the final group returning at the end of the month. 
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The ninth graders were divided into teams, each setting out from a different location in Everglades National Park and tasked with charting their course back to base camp using compasses and navigational skills. The students camped at islands along the way or "boarded up" to sleep, tying their canoes together and pitching their tents on boards. The students caught glimpses of dolphins and other wildlife, paddled through dense mangroves and open water, and managed chilly temperatures for South Florida. The annual Everglades Experience is overseen by RE faculty member Tim McAllister, and the students travel with guides from the North Carolina Outward Bound School.
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.