2008 proved to be an exciting year for the Cottonwood Institute. Before the end of the year approaches, I wanted to take a moment to share some of our exciting success stories and to thank all of our donors, instructors, volunteers, educational partners, students, and parents that helped make it all possible. PARTICIPANTS SERVED: In… Read more »
Posts By: Ford Church
Action Project: In progress!
Manual students have decided to try and do something about the litter at their school. After completing tedious research, calling on neighbors and community leaders for support, and writing a grant we have finally been able to purchase 10 additional trash cans for the school to be placed in high traffic areas. Furthermore, students are… Read more »
CAP Post Course Survey, 2nd Quarter 2008
As the quarter comes to a close, I wanted to get some open and honest feedback from this class about how to improve the CAP for future students. This information will not affect your grade, but please take it seriously. It will be reviewed by the school, the Cottonwood Institute, and this information will help… Read more »
Day Trip
Manual students took a day trip to explore their community and partake in a little fun! We started at Thrillseekers, an indoor rock climbing gym. After learning about the equipment, safety tips, and a few techniques we were ready to climb! Tailor and Marissa race up the wall! Tayana takes her first shot at making it… Read more »
Action Project: Promote Bike Commuting!
For our Action Project, the Community Adventure Program (CAP) students at PS1 have decided to take a look at transportation. In doing so, we found out that most of the students in our class are pretty good at using public transportation (since they can’t drive!). However, we also found that it would be much more… Read more »
CAP Post Course Survey, 2nd Quarter 2008
As the quarter comes to a close, I wanted to get some open and honest feedback from this class about how to improve the CAP for future students. This information will not affect your grade, but please take it seriously. It will be reviewed by the school, the Cottonwood Institute, and this information will help… Read more »
We’ve Been Busy!
Our second overnight is complete, our action project is in full swing, and next week we’ll be going rock climbing to celebrate. The past few weeks have been busy ones. We met with North Boulder Recreation Center to get a look at a LEED certified building, we chose our environmental issue, and survived a… Read more »
Alumni Snapshot: Coral Hackler
While trying to get in touch with past Cottonwood Institute students, I got a very enthusiastic response from Coral Hackler. Coral took the Community Adventure Program at New Vista High School in 2004. She was very excited to be able to contribute to the Cottonwood Institute in any way she could. Here is what she… Read more »
CAP Post Course Survey, 1st Semester 2008
As the quarter comes to a close, I wanted to get some open and honest feedback from this class about how to improve the CAP for future students. This information will not affect your grade, but please take it seriously. It will be reviewed by the school, the Cottonwood Institute, and this information will help… Read more »
Top 5 Ways To Help The Cottonwood Institute Thrive!
As the end of the year approaches and you decide what charities to support this year, we hope you will consider the Cottonwood Institute. We accomplished amazing results in 2008 and we could not have done it without the generous support of individuals like you! In these challenging economic times, we wanted to offer the… Read more »
