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Program Information:
- Meet other Vermonters at this intense 48-hour Institute
- Take risks & try new things
- Topic areas: snow studies, youth activism, or performing arts
Now in its fifth season,
the Winter Weekend Institute is a high energy 48 hour marathon of fun and learning.
It's a chance for students to get away for a
weekend in February to meet fellow Vermonters and to try something new.
In 2002,
85 students from 40 Vermont high schools came together to participate in Performing Arts, Youth Activism, or Snow Studies.
The high demand for our summer Institutes as well as the clamor from past students
for opportunities to reconnect led us to develop a Winter Weekend Institute,
but you do not have to have attended one of our institutes before to attend
the Winter Weekend. It is open to all students grades 9-12.
- Timeline:
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- January 1:
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- Registration forms available in schools. Open to all students grades 9-12. Enrollment is first come until we're filled.
- Register for Performing Arts, Snow Studies, or Youth Activism strands.
- Mail forms directly to GIV, 25 Hubbard St., Montpelier, VT, 05062
(Please note: the Summer Institute application on this website is NOT the same as the Winter Weekend registration form.)
- February 21-23:
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2003 Winter Weekend Strands:
PERFORMING ARTS
Brattleboro-based clown team Gould & Stearns will lead the weekend's performance studies.
CURRENT ISSUES AND YOUTH ACTIVISM
John Ungerleider, Program Director of our summer Institute, with faculty members Tim Kipp and Mary Gannon, will focus with students on child labor and create strategies for addressing global child labor abuses. Students will analyze the causes of oppressive child labor and create potential youth action responses, such as political organizing, using arts for social justice, and utilizing the Vermont-based Child Labor Education and Action (CLEA) resource network.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SNOW STUDIES
Christine Massey, Program Director of our summer Institute, along with Paul Bierman of our summer program, will take students back to the "real world" of natural science. Spend the day in the mountains on snowshoes learning how to use equipment used by avalanche forecasters, hydrologists, and foresters. We will provide snowshoes if you don't own them. Additional technology includes use of avalanche beacons, GPS's, digital cameras, digital video cameras and PowerPoint software. This will be an all-day outdoor adventure for crazed, cold-weather science fans only.
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