South Andros
High School
"Climbing Higher Toward Success"
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Mr. Durant and Mrs. Gibson arrive in Burlington International Airport to start their stay in Vermont with 5 students
Students from South Andros visit the UVM Dairy Facility to learn about one of Vermont's major industries.
Together, UVM and South Andros High School are working towards a greener, more sustainable future.
Mr. Durant and Mrs. Gibson arrive in Burlington International Airport to start their stay in Vermont with 5 students
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT
Students and faculty members from the University of Vermont (UVM) have been partnering with South Andros High School since 2013. Under the leadership of Walter Poleman of the Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources and Felix Wai and PJ McHenry of Burlington’s Arts Riot, over 30 students have participated in a variety of service-learning projects focused on designing and building sustainable food systems on the island. In addition, agricultural science teacher Trenton Durant brought a group of students from South Andros High School to UVM in summer 2014 to study food systems in Vermont. Funding for these projects has been provided in part by the Thoreau Foundation through UVM’s Ecological Design Collaboratory.
NATURE'S HOPE
Nature’s Hope for Southern Andros, established in 2001, provides environmental educators and outreach coordinators in South Andros. The goals of this grassroots organization include promoting sustainable tourism, maintaining healthy fishery populations, and raising awareness to environmental conservation issues. Local fishermen, teachers, and tourism representatives make up the volunteers and board members of Nature’s Hope. In addition to its environmental efforts, Nature’s Hope built and maintains a trail network that encircles and showcases several blue holes of South Andros.
LESLEY UNIVERSITY
School Library
Lesley University’s Christine Bennett completed a semester of volunteer-teaching at South Andros High School in Spring 2013. Since then, she has worked with other volunteers and Lesley University students to revitalize the school library, which had been closed for over ten years. The team built shelves, created a library cataloguing system, and raised awareness for the project. Lesley University now offers an international education study abroad program at South Andros High School to provide experience with multicultural teaching perspectives.
ArtsRiot was created to directly destroy apathy. This does not mean we are aiming at one group, cause, crime, movement, or person. We simply believe our world, our larger community, has lots of issues. Although all the challenges and solutions are complex, we do know one simple and powerful fact. It will always be better and the road will always be easier, if there was more engagement and connection.
Apathy stands in our way. So what do we do about that? At one point, we had the opportunity to ask an old community leader and civil rights activist this exact question: “What can we do about all this?” The elder responded “Besides our personal work, sometimes all we can do is shine our light as bright as possible.”
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The Water: Systems, Science and Society (WSSS) graduate certificate program at Tufts University provides interdisciplinary education and tools needed to manage water-related problems around the world. Because the students and faculty in WSSS come from a variety of backgrounds, including engineering, nutrition, policy and planning, the sciences, medicine, and law and diplomacy, they are able to work on complex problems that lie at the intersection of the different disciplines such as urban river restoration, regional-scale nutrient management, water and food security, and water supply in conflict zones. In March 2015, Dr. John Durant and a group of WSSS students will be visiting South Andros to help develop the aquaponics system started by South Andros High School and the University of Vermont.