FLEX TIME BRUNSWICK’S NEW VERMONT CAMPUS
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‘Beta’ Expeditions Sharpen Target for Success
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O QUESTION: Everything’s
students were introduced to ’Wick
on track for a great start.
alumnus Charlie Castine ’12, who
In late February, modeling
the experience planned for all
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01 Sophomores Matty Goodman, Henry Dale, and Jojo McCurdy make a few new friends. 02 Dante White ’20 prepares to build a shelter. 03 The boys get ready to depart from Stamford train station. 04 Nadji Ngbokoli ’20 keeps up on his English reading.
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now works full-time at the property. During the six-day trek, students
sophomores in 2018–2019, a brave
participated in a spectrum
band of seven 10th graders and most
of outside-the-box activities,
members of Science Teacher Chris
including work and frontline
Forester’s advisory, boarded Amtrak’s
experience in applied genetics, data
Vermonter in Stamford and ventured
analytics, and agribusiness at the
north to the new campus.
nearby Ayers Brooks Goat Dairy.
They were led by Forester,
At the farm, atop a whiteboard
Vermont Program Director Danny
charting milk production, a sign
Dychkowski, and seniors Harry
proclaimed: “Money can’t buy you
Rogers ’18 and Christian Ruf ’18,
happiness, but it can buy you goats
both veterans of last year’s wilder-
— which is pretty much the same
ness expedition to Camp Dudley, in
thing.”
upstate New York. In Vermont, the intrepid group was greeted at Randolph station
“It was a good reminder that we weren’t in Fairfield County,” Hastings observed.
by Dean of Student Life Tucker
Other new and “chill” expe-
Hastings, deliberately just a few
riences included a night hike,
steps ahead of everyone else. On site,
solo construction of bunk-bed