From Archery and Camp Cooking to Leave No Trace, Horizon Students Embraced First-Time Camping While Building Outdoor Skills, Strengthening Friendships, and Creating Lasting Memories Ten sixth-grade students from Horizons at Colorado Academy set off on an unforgettable two-day adventure to Staunton State Park and Serenity in the Foothills Campground, where they showed off their archery… Read more »
From Learning the 10 Essentials to Fishing and Unforgettable Games, DMLK Middle School Students Built Skills and Confidence During their Outdoor Adventure Written by CI Field Instructor Blaise Miles. On our recent camping trip with DMLK Middle School, students had the chance to build outdoor skills, challenge themselves, and make memories surrounded by mountain views… Read more »
Middle Schoolers from Dr. MLK Jr. Early College Step Into the Outdoors—with Courage, Creativity, and Some Impressive Bear Hangs. Written by CI Field Instructor Blaise Miles. Recently, students from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Early College spent the week immersing themselves in outdoor activities from archery to rock climbing to camping in the foothills. On… Read more »
It’s spring in the Front Range! The grass is green, the birds are singing, there’s snow in the mountains…wait, there’s still snow in the mountains?!? If you’re craving some warm sunshine before the high country has melted out, check out these trails close to home for some of the best spring hikes near Denver. The… Read more »
Fire is both destructive and a source of regeneration. The students of STRIVE Prep – Federal took this lesson of the duality of fire to everything they accomplished over the two weeks of their Explore Outside program. They broke down barriers and generated new and incredible skills! The students came together to overcome challenges, spend… Read more »
Beginning my first season as a Cottonwood Instructor, I was thrilled to hit the ground running with one of our Explore Outside programs! On June 1st, our two-week program with STRIVE Prep – Sunnyside 8th graders began. During our time together, we covered all kinds of content that got us exploring the natural world. We… Read more »
Cottonwood Institute has always promoted a life of learning, loving, and living nature. This means disconnecting from our ever-connected devices and reconnecting to the natural world through all of our senses. We encourage our students to observe animal behaviors, to listen to whispers of the wind through the trees, to feel the texture of the… Read more »
New in the summer of 2020: Cottonwood Institute’s #ExploreOutside online program! That’s right—a program that puts two instructors and a group of students in a Zoom conference to do the exact opposite of what 99% of people are doing on Zoom these days—think about nature and get outdoors! The first session of this new program,… Read more »
