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CSN Local & Global Experiences 2025-2026

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Where Learning Leaves the Classroom.

At the Community School of Naples, learning doesn’t end when the bell rings, it expands across continents, cultures, and real-world experiences

Our Middle and Upper School Travel Program inspires students to explore, engage, and lead through immersive academic journeys tied directly to their coursework, clubs, and passions. These faculty-led experiences strengthen global awareness, deepen classroom understanding, and develop independence, curiosity, and confidence.

Every CSN trip is intentionally designed as an extension of our curriculum, turning the world into our most powerful classroom.

Lower School travel experiences Lower School travel experiences

aim to inspire imagination, aim to inspire imagination, enhance classroom learning, and enhance classroom learning, and

provide students with their first provide students with their first real exposure to the world beyond real exposure to the world beyond campus. campus.

Florida’s oldest city becomes a hands-on classroom as fourth graders dive into Spanish colonial history and the spirit of American innovation.

When: April 22-24, 2025

School Days Missed: 0

Student Criteria: Grade 4

Estimated Cost: $1378

Trip Coordinator: Ms. Rachael Klaas

Description: Students will experience Castillo de San Marcos, Colonial Quarter, trolley tour, Spanish Military Hospital Museum, and the Fountain of Youth. The trip will continue with hands-on experiences at the Kennedy Space Center

St. Augustine, Florida & Kennedy Space Center

These trips aren’t simply field adventures; they are purposeful extensions of our curriculum, designed to build confidence, independence, and excitement about learning.

Williamsburg, Virginia

When: April 14-17, 2026

School Days Missed: 0

Student Criteria: Grade 5

Estimated Cost: $1786

Trip Coordinator: Ms Rachael Klaas

Description:

Students will explore Colonial Williamsburg. Destinations Include the Governors Palace, Jamestown Settlement, Powhatan Village, Yorktown Battlefield and the American Revolution Museum.

Students step inside the story of our nation, exploring museums, monuments, and historical landmarks that bring their civics education to life.

This journey is packed with hands-on learning, collaborative activities, and meaningful moments that shape informed young citizens.

Washington, D.C.—A Living Lab of American History

Grade 8 • March 7–19, 2026

When: March 7-19, 2026

School Days Missed: 9

Student Criteria: Grade 8

Estimated Cost: $3000

Trip Coordinator: Mr Scott Miles

Description: Students will have the opportunity to visit historical attractions as they experience Washington D C as a true living lab of our country's past

Valencia, Spain Global Exchange Experience

When: March 7- 19, 2026

School Days Missed: 9

Student Criteria: Grades 7-8- host a student in January.

Estimated Cost: $3000

Trip Coordinator: Ms. Fabiola von Hollen & Ms. Mercedes Muñiz

Description: Students will experience Spanish culture by living with a host family In Valencia for two weeks.

Our signature exchange program allows CSN students to live with Spanish host families, attend local schools, and immerse themselves in authentic language and cultural experiences. It’s transformative, confidence-building, and unforgettable.

Transformative Experiences

Transformative Experiences

Connected to Clubs, Courses & Connected to Clubs, Courses &

Leadership Programs

Leadership Programs

Spanish Language Immersion

SPAIN SPAIN

When: March 27- April 4, 2026

School Days Missed: Half Day

Student Criteria: Priority to grades 11 and 12 enrolled in Spanish class

Estimated Cost: $5000

Trip Coordinator: Ms. Fabiola von Hollen

Students will apply their Spanish Language skills while visiting attractions in Sevilla, Cordoba and Madrid

Spanish Language Immersion Costa Rica Costa Rica

When: February 14-21, 2026

School Days Missed: 0

Student Criteria: Enrollment In Spanish 1, 2, or 2H.

Estimated Cost: $3500

Trip Coordinator: Ms. Melissa Barrett

Students will discover the Costa Rican rainforest and apply their language skills, deepen their culture knowledge & enhance spanish proficiency.

Latin State Forum

Orlando Orlando

When: April 9-11, 2026

School Days Missed: 1

Student Criteria: Enrollment in a Latin course.

Estimated Cost: $500

Trip Coordinator: Ms Samantha Adamczyk

Students will compete with other Latin students from Florida.

French

Congrès State Competition

Orlando Orlando

When: March 5-7, 2026

School Days Missed: 2

Student Criteria: Active participation in French club.

Estimated Cost: $400

Trip Coordinator: Ms. Marilyne Shaffer

Students will compete against other Florida schools In Impromptu speaking, poetry

A Journey through Europe's History and French Language

When: March 26-April 2, 2026

School Days Missed: 2

Europe

Europe

Spanish Confrencia State Competition

Student Criteria: Enrollment In a French class or club, AP Human Geo or AP European History

Priority to grades 11 and 12

Estimated Cost: $5000

Trip Coordinator: Ms. Marilyn Shaffer

Students will be Immersed In French culture and gain historical Insight by visiting Geneva, Nice, and Monaco.

When: March 5-7, 2026

School Days Missed: 2

Student Criteria: Active participation in Spanish club

Estimated Cost: $450

Trip Coordinator: Ms. Fabiola von Hollen

Students will compete against other Florida schools In Impromptu speaking, poetry declamation, trivia and dramatic presentation for the State Competition.

Our Robotics and Math trips enhance Our Robotics and Math trips enhance STEM education through real-world STEM education through real-world application and hands-on discovery. application and hands-on discovery.

When: January 21-24, 2026

School Days Missed: 3

Student Criteria: Active participation in Robotics class or club.

Estimated Cost: $1100

Trip Coordinator: Mr. Sean Headrick

Students will compete against elite teams to qualify for VEX World Championship. Students will also have an opportunity to explore Green Bay, Wisconsin

February 24–28, 2026

School Days Missed: 4

Student Criteria: Robotics team must have qualifying score

Estimated Cost: $1200

Trip Coordinator: Mr. Sean Headrick

Students will compete In the Colombia National Robotics Tournament hosted by the ElA University in El Peñasco, Colombia.

UF Science Symposium

GAINESVILLE GAINESVILLE

When: February, 2026

School Days Missed: 2

Student Criteria: Participation in CSN STEM Fair

Estimated Cost: $300

Trip Coordinator: Ms Kelly Percivall

Students will visit UF labs and attend research

When: June 28 - July 3, 2026

School Days Missed: 0

Student Criteria: Attend State Competition in Orlando

Estimated Cost: TBD

Trip Coordinator: Ms. Jessica Coombs

Students will travel and compete at the national level and have a full-day excursion

HOSA: Future Health Professionals Club, Sciences, Healthcare

Orlando Orlando

Orlando Orlando

When: April 16- 19, 2026

School Days Missed: 2

Student Criteria: Active participation in HOSA club with at least 5 meetings attended. Must also qualify by placing 1-3 In Regionals

Estimated Cost: $800

Trip Coordinator: Ms. Shannon Grant

Students will attend competitive events, educational seminars, and opportunities to network & develop leadership skills.

Mu Alpha Theta State Competition

When: Exact Dates TBD- usually in April

School Days Missed: usually 2

Student Criteria: Mu Alpha Theta participants

Estimated Cost: $500

Trip Coordinator: Ms Jessica Coombs

Math state competition. The trip includes a day at Sea World.

Students walk in the footsteps of ancient Students walk in the footsteps of ancient civilizations civilizations

When: February 16-23, 2026

School Days Missed: 1

Student Criteria: Priority to students enrolled in Latin classes.

Rome Rome

Estimated Cost: $4475

Trip Coordinator: Ms. Samantha Adamczyk

Students will explore Iconic Roman attractions on guided tours through Italy

When: December 4-7, 2025

School Days Missed: 1

Student Criteria: Advanced Art students working on portfolio development

Estimated Cost: $850

Trip Coordinator: Ms. Laura Foht

Students will spend the weekend visiting art museums and creating their own art

Latin Legacy in Rome
St. Petersburg Art Museums

Our Social Science trips are intentionally Our Social Science trips are intentionally designed to extend classroom learning designed to extend classroom learning into real communities, cultures, and into real communities, cultures, and historical settings, transforming academic historical settings, transforming academic study into meaningful, personal study into meaningful, personal discovery. discovery.

When: January 15-20, 2026

School Days Missed: 3

Student Criteria: Active participation in HMC club.

Estimated Cost: $2000

San San

Francisco Francisco

Trip Coordinator: Mr Jeff Thomas

Students will take on the roll of a congress person to debate, pass bills, and learn how Democracy works Harvard students will be leading the experience.

Boston Boston

When: February 24-26, 2026

School Days Missed: 4

Student Criteria: Active participation in MUN

Estimated Cost: $2500

Trip Coordinator: Ms Susan Herting

Students will meet and debate at MUN Rome, one of the largest and most prestigious Model United Nations In Europe.

Orlando Orlando

Mock Trial Competition

When: March 26-28, 2026

School Days Missed: 2

Student Criteria: Active participation in Mock Trial.

Estimated Cost: $500

Trip Coordinator: Mr Craig Schwerin

Students will learn critical thinking skills, legal reasoning, analysis, persuasive speaking and professionalism by working with volunteer attorneys and law students

Model UN
Harvard Model Congress

Our Special Interest Trips give students

Our Special Interest Trips give students the opportunity to dive deeply into the opportunity to dive deeply into subjects they love, explore emerging subjects they love, explore emerging interests, and engage in hands-on interests, and engage in hands-on learning that elevates their educational learning that elevates their educational experience. experience.

When: April 8-12, 2026

School Days Missed: 3

Student Criteria: Students who have completed AP Research.

Los Los Angeles Angeles

Estimated Cost: $1600

Trip Coordinator: Ms. Lisa Scherff

Students will discover this year's theme of "Unforgetting Histories and Imagining Futures: Constructing a New Vision for Education Research".

When: November 7-8, 2025

School Days Missed: 1

Student Criteria: Active participation In FBLA.

Estimated Cost: $350

Trip Coordinator: Ms Marilyne Shaffer

Students will compete in events, explore leadership opportunities and community engagement at the Florida conference

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