Eleven high school students from East Grand and three from Southern Aroostook Community School took part in this year’s Teens to Trails Conference at Windham High School held April 3.
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PARTICIPANTS – East Grand and Southern Aroostook students who attended the Teens to Trails Conference were, from left, front row, Andrew Gilman, Kaithln Beaudoin, Jon Wright and Mitchell Bartlett; second row, Sharlene Maynard, Jane Cousins and Dave Conley, East Grand Outdoor Education instructor; third row, Liz Gilman and Rebecca Sherwood and back row, Vance Gustin, Cleve Kenyon, Morgan Gustin, Shauuna Beaudoin, Ben Plummer, Aaron Henn and East Grand teacher Jolene Maynard.
East Grand Outdoor Education students headed up a workshop, sat in on a question and answer panel on how an outdoor program functions.
East Grand student Mitchell Bartlett also produced a slide show for the general assembly promoting their upcoming Adventure Race on May 8 and a video presentation on their three-day Alamar Sailing trip on the Maine coast, a trip the students had won though a photo contest with Teens To Trails.
For more information on Teens to Trails and its efforts to get an outing club into every high school in the state, go to www.teenstotrails.org
Information is available on line for the May 8 Adventure Race www.eastgrandschool.org/adventure-race.