DragonWeek

Enjoy the active California outdoor lifestyle along the beautiful Russian River! Explore both fresh and salt water as we hike, boat, and ride amongst the majestic redwoods of coastal California. We will be living, cooking, and traveling as a group, spending four nights in rustic accommodations.

Earn your Open Water or Advanced Open Water scuba diving certification in Cozumel, Mexico, home to the second-largest barrier reef system in the world! This is a fantastic opportunity for students interested in marine biology to explore the wondrous and severely threatened world of coral reef ecosystems. Gain practical diving skills that will enable you to scuba dive all over the world, and learn from a local non-profit about their spotted eagle ray and sea turtle marine conservation initiatives. 

This trip includes a three-day course to get scuba dive certified; no previous dive experience is necessary. 

Join a week full of outdoor expeditions! We’ll explore local biking trails, embark on an overnight kayaking journey to Angel Island, and interact with safari animals at Safari West.

Participate in a week-long lab, online, and classroom activities centered around the solving of a real crime committed in the 1800s. Students will get to learn and carry out some basic forensic lab procedures such as fingerprinting, blood spatter and typing, DNA & hair analysis, etc. The results of these tests will help the students identify the suspects and use circumstantial evidence to narrow the criminal. As part of this course, there will be interactions with a guest speaker, local police, crime lab, and a visit to the coroner's office to learn about how autopsies are performed and how the samples are collected, studied, and stored.

As part of the British History Senior Elective, the class will travel with their instructor and the Head of School to significant sites in the UK. Only students taking this class are eligible to participate. 

Spend a week in New York City and experience theater, music, visual arts, architecture, and even the business side of art, through the lens of mathematics. From sight lines in theaters to the shapes of special exhibits in museums to the syncopated rhythms of jazz, math has a role in helping us describe and create beauty. Students will experience this in the paths of Central Park, the angles of the Flatiron Building, the sets of a Broadway show, and the edgy works found in the Museum of Modern Art.
 

Create and explore new mediums! Students will get to explore different tools, work within different disciplines and modalities, and create tangible and practical items. Classes include woodworking, clay throwing, ceramics, leatherworking, and blacksmithing at various shops around the Bay Area.