Other Opportunities

A Conserve School semester often acts as a springboard to other great adventures and educational opportunities. Our alums have spanned the globe learning, exploring, and helping others and our planet.

Follow in their footsteps or blaze your own trail with these programs recommended by our alums and staff.

Cottonwood Gulch

From Cottonwood Gulch: Our expeditions travel to wilderness areas and explore them — on foot. Each group will visit several different regions of the Southwest: red rock canyons, high desert mesas, and alpine ranges. We explore mostly on foot, backpacking and day-hiking into the backcountry, but we also take canoe trips through river canyons. The wilderness areas of the Southwest are vast. They conceal remarkable cultural secrets as well, including important ruins and contemporary Native American communities. Just like any expedition throughout history, our wilderness expeditions have as their purpose the discovery of new knowledge. First, it is our goal to find new information about all the places we visit and add to our knowledge base about the Southwest. This includes a field guide to the flora and fauna of the high desert and an inventory of historical sites in the Southwest. Second, it is our goal to live and work as a community, learning to rely on our fellow Trekkers and to trust ourselves. Our expeditions demand personal responsibility and a commitment to the group from each of their members.

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TeenLife Summer Programs

The TeenLife website provides information about hundreds of great summer opportunities.

CSG Summer Programs for Girls

The mission of Coastal Studies for Girls (CSG) is to inspire, train, and empower girls to be scientists, environmental stewards, and leaders. Their students have a love for learning and discovery, an adventurous spirit, and a desire to challenge themselves. Coastal Studies for Girls is the country's only residential science and leadership semester school for 10th grade girls.
In addition to the 10th grade semester school CSG offers shorter summer opportunities for girls entering 6th through 9th grade.

Click here for the cSG Summer Programs website

National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS)

From the NOLS website: With courses ranging from 10 days to a full academic year, we attract highly motivated students who want to learn how to lead. Our hands on, learn-by-doing approach means that our graduates get the skills they need to be competent, responsible wilderness travelers long after their course is over.

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Student Climate & Conservation Congress (Sc3)

Hosted by the Green Schools Alliance (GSA) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (NCTC), The mission of the Student Climate & Conservation Congress (Sc3) is to empower outstanding student environmental leaders with the skills, knowledge and tools necessary to address natural
resource challenges and better serve their schools and communities.


click here for the student Climate & Conservation Congress website

Woolman Teen Leadership Camp

From the Woolman website:
This exciting new program takes the Sierra Friends Camp experience to a whole new level for 15 and 16 year olds:
  • More incredible trips to places like Tahoe National Forest and the Yuba River, as well as some cool new destinations!
  • Learn new skills like trip planning and leadership, trail cooking, native plant identification, and permaculture.
  • Leadership opportunities for working with the younger campers at Sierra Friends Camp.
  • Place-based education will give you fascinating insights about the natural world you call home.
  • Service trips combine good work with interesting learning and great fun.
  • Amazing friendships that last a lifetime!
Woolman Teen Leadership Camp is open to everybody 15-16 years old. This first summer was amazing, and we look forward to even more adventures in our expanded program for 2012!

click here for the woolman Summer Camp website