Ecolink Outdoor Education
ECOLINK MISSION
Holy Spirit Episcopal School initiated its outdoor education program to foster respect, love, and understanding for our environment, to encourage students to pursue mental, physical, and spiritual challenges, and to develop leadership, cooperation, and tolerance.
To fulfill this mission, Holy Spirit has established the Ecolink Outdoor Education program, which seeks to achieve goals that correspond with those of the science and history curricula of the appropriate grade, and to provide a better understanding of subject content and the opportunity to apply knowledge gained in the classroom.
Program Objectives
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To promote a feeling of unity and shared experience outside the classroom.
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To promote an understanding of various ecological habitats.
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To develop and improve leadership and communication skills.
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To develop in students a love and respect for the natural world.
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To enlist the active participation of each student by engaging their hands and imagination in a direct learning process.
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To broaden students' personal awareness and experience with outdoor living/travel procedures and safety.
SCHOLARSHIP FUND
The Alec Hilman Pura Vida Award
A scholarship fund formed by a committee of peers in his honor, the Alec Hilman Pura Vida annual award will be set up as a scholarship for a middle school student to help fund his or her participation in the Cultural Exchange Program or an HSES Ecolink trip.
Participate in the fund with donations to:
Holy Spirit Episcopal School
The Alec Hilman Pura Vida Award
12535 Perthshire Road
Houston, Texas 77024
For questions or more information contact Brooke Frank, Director of Ecolink and Outdoor Education.
