Emphasis Celebration Shares Group Highlights

On Tuesday, June 2, our last day on campus together, the entire school gathered in and around the Pavilion to hear about and celebrate the adventurous, hands-on learning that happened for each Emphasis group last week. Groups met the day before to gather ideas, highlight favorite moments, and collect photos, then created three Google slides to capture their activities and share them with the community. Each group was given a few minutes to share their presentation, with group members taking turns to highlight one aspect or another of their time together. It was a huge and grateful glimpse into the magic and mayhem of Emphasis. Emphasis Coordinators Heidi, Carolyn and Meg worked hard all year with the faculty and staff to plan and execute nineteen different programs that ran simultaneously and in many locations, requiring transportation, permission slips, reservations, food and unique supplies. While some groups - like D&D, Board Games, Serenity - remained mostly on campus for their adventures, some visited Escape Rooms, local sports venues, Lighthouse Studio, Heidi's goat farm, Jocelyn's kitchen, and many other local venues. Some groups took to the road to visit museums, ballparks, lakes and waterfalls and more. One group performed local service and then attended a leadership conference, and two other groups performed local service. Many groups took to the outdoors every day to bicycle, hike, look for birds, rock climb and backpack on the AT. Hooray for Emphasis and Emphasis Celebration! Check out more photos by clicking on the headline.