Your group will be "camping" indoors at a church or other facility near your work site, usually with some comforts of couches, carpets and kitchens for cooking your meals. If you opt for an environmental or community farming trip, you will camp outdoors. Either way, you will be engaged in important service work to the greater Oneida county region and you will have a blast!
After completing your service project, we will head to an outdoor education center for a day of high ropes elements that culminates in an evening campfire experience. All pre-orientation trips reconvene together on campus the following night for a final banquet together before New Student Orientation begins.
Participants arrive on campus and register between 8:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Belongings for the school year may be placed in residence hall rooms at that time, or on August 25th. There will be a parent orientation on August 17th for parents who do not wish to return on August 25th. Activities begin at 4 p.m.
Full day on campus preparing for the trip.
Depart campus for service day at Chenango Canal
Move into your "base camp" late afternoon. First "home cooked" meal with your group!
Work at service site during the day.
Evening fun and games or special activities in the area with your group.
More of the same!
Work at service site in the morning.
After lunch, drive into Adirondacks to Outdoor Education Center.
Overnight at Outdoor education center. Day on high ropes course (challenge by choice).
Dinner with AA and OA participants followed by evening bonfire.
Return to campus by early afternoon.
Closing banquet celebration (semi-formal) in the evening.
New Student Orientation begins. (Family members may rejoin students for the day).
