Intensive Learning @ MFS
The World At Your Fingertips
Our week ended in yet another diverse ecosystem at The Pine Tree Center. It was wonderful to see our guides show, and our students remember, the many things they saw and learned this week. The site was once a Boy Scout camp. It was also a camp for disadvantaged children, and a century ago...
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By: Rex, Olivia, and Jenetta Today we visited Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge! The organization facilitates environmental education, wildlife rehabilitation, and conservation. Our guide, Frank, showed us around the property, which contains almost 3 miles of hiking trails. He led us into the area where there are enclosures for animals that have injuries or conditions...
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As we reached the end of our week long exploration of Sacred Spaces, we look back at what we have seen, experienced and learned. This week we visited 10 different sacred spaces from a variety of religious traditions. Through out our time together, we learned a number of new and interesting things. First, how...
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Our visit to the local Catholic church provided a great look at how intentional design creates an atmosphere of deep respect regardless of the religion you believe in. After touring the sanctuary and observing how elements like light and sound can make an environment sacred, we transitioned to the classroom to present our own...
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This morning we started up the last day with bagels provided by Ms. Galler and Ms. MacKenzie. After that, we split up into our separate podcast groups to finish up recording and editing, before returning back to start our listening session. Once we returned back to our bigger group, we took a lunch break...
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Day 5 It’s our final day for our IL and we hosted a lunch for the school’s staff! We started prepping when we woke up from staying overnight and got to work setting up the tables and chairs in the main room. After that, our group all went to The Cubby Hole for breakfast....
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On our fifth and final day of the Foxes Go to College Intensive Learning group, we reviewed each of the colleges this week by completing college scorecard charts and reviewing with our groups. The first few hours of our day consisted of filling out the scorecard sheets we’ve been slowly working on throughout this...
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Today is the last day of Intensive Learning, and the Arts and Entertainment group had a great time! The group had the opportunity to visit Gradwell Recording House, and it was a really unique experience. When we first arrived, we were introduced to the studio space and got a behind-the-scenes look at all the...
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Our final day brought on last visit to Our Lady of Good Counsel in Moorestown. Our visit to the local Catholic church provided a great look at how intentional design creates an atmosphere of deep respect regardless of the religion you believe in. In the church we were able to make connections in terms...
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Gullfoss Falls of Iceland Who would ever guess thata broad river flowing down fromdistant pure white glacierscould drop so suddenly over ablack lava rim only to turn sharplyat a right angle and do the sameall over again doubling theintensity of its roar in torrentsas white as distant glaciers. Poem by Richard F. Fleck By...
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In many places, plans define the experience. Here, the ability to change them does. The Icelanders seem to understand this deeply. And instead of resisting it, they work with it. That mindset started to rub off on us. Each disrupted plan became less of a disappointment and more of an opportunity to experience something...
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On Friday, March 26, we woke up around 8:30 to the smell of fresh chocolate chip pancakes made by Harri, which was a really nice way to start the day. We headed to Magic Kingdom and took the monorail over to Epcot in the morning. We spent about 4-5 hours going around each country...
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Today we experienced the highlight of the Arts and Entertainment program: the annual trip to NYC Broadway! Bright and early, the group headed to Hamilton Train Station around 9 a.m. to catch our train to Manhattan. We got seats all next to each other on the train and had a great time bonding with...
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Unfortunately, the trip our group was supposed to go on today (Proof Productions) wasn’t able to work out, but nonetheless we went into the day with positivity and energy! We did some service work in the auditorium which was tedious at times, but still fun because we were doing it with our friends. We...
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