Spring Trips

Spring Trip Week
Each year after 7th Block, most of the community splits into several groups that head out on various adventures. Choices are presented during Block 6 and sign-ups begin. Some groups have gone hiking in the Smokey Mountains, the Ozarks, or through national parks in Utah. Others go bicycling across Iowa or canoeing down the Missouri River. Still others take a community service road trip to cities like St. Louis, Des Moines or Chicago. The object of all of these trips is to help develop teamwork and understanding among group members and to encourage learning in environments outside of the classroom.

Senior Week

While the rest of the student body is away from school, the senior class remains on campus to spend the week working on school-improvement projects in a relaxed atmosphere (which includes evening fun). In past years seniors have planted hundreds of trees along the soccer field and sound wall, built a deck around a front-campus maple tree, planted flowers, built a tent platform and fire ring near the pond, and created a brick patio outside our auditorium. In this way, the seniors can make an important contribution to the school campus which will be remembered fondly in years to come.