Trips are another part of the ACS curriculum designed to take learning out of the classroom. They teach organization, budgeting, working in a team, and offer a chance to interact with people outside of the school environment. Trips Committee does a survey about what trips people would like to go on. Then they look at what trips are feasible, and teachers are chosen to lead them. The family group money, plus as much as we can scrape out of our budget, is allocated to the trips on a per-student basis.
Many groups have to do additional fundraising.
And for one week in late May, the school is essentially deserted for a week while everyone goes out and canoes, hikes, bikes, rockclimbs, acts, or takes a trip to Assateague, New York City, or a Native American reservation . . . Click here to see a list of this year's trips.