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Take Flight: help 7th graders learn in Ecuador and Colombia

 Please help support this year’s Take Flight trips that will be to Colombia and Ecuador, and will take place during the week of March 11th-19th. 

 Like last year, the theme of the trip to Colombia will be educational inequity. Travelers will spend the week visiting a variety of schools in Barranquilla and will complete a service project with the students and community members of Colegio Buen Consejo. The group will also visit tourist destinations around Cartagena and Santa Marta.

The trip to Ecuador will be science-based with a service learning component.  The  itinerary includes an academic exchange and service-learning project with local students; lots of science experiments at zero degrees latitude; possible visits to a glacier,  cloud forest, volcanic lake, cacao plantation, and butterfly garden; as well as an exploration of Quito, Ecuador's culturally-rich capital.

Previous years' blogs can be viewed at   http://icstakeflight.weebly.com/ .


Each travel group will consist of 16 seventh grade students.  We have begun our plan to teach the students how to personally raise funds. Parents have been organizing to help through bake sales, babysitting nights, and other grassroots efforts.

We need to raise $7,000 more to ensure that all students, regardless of economic level and/or ability to pay, are able to take part in this amazing experience. Help us raise the final $7,000 by March 4, 2017 so that all our students can Take Flight. 

Project by: INDEPENDENCE CS

Backers

Cindy Shultz

Mar 02, 10:03am

$50.00

Griffin Talon

What a great opportunity for my granddaughter and her class!

Gail Pelovitz

Mar 02, 9:04am

$50.00

Donation

Stephen Cohen

Mar 02, 5:31am

$100.00

Griffin

Anonymous

Mar 01, 5:56pm

$25.00

Griffin Wing

nahema rivers

Feb 24, 8:46am

$10.00

Donation

Ayana King-Pointer

Feb 23, 4:22pm

$25.00

Griffin Wing

To give back and say thank you for the wonderful experience my daughter Camille Pointer had last year as a take-flight traveler.

Luz Angela Bolivar

Feb 22, 7:14pm

$50.00

Griffin Talon

What a wonderful opportunity for ICS students! They will have a lifetime experience!

Matt and Diane Miller

Feb 14, 9:02am

$50.00

Griffin Talon

Stephen Pasich

Feb 13, 7:31am

$50.00

Griffin Talon

Have an amazing learning trip!

Anonymous

Feb 12, 5:36pm

$25.00

Griffin Wing

Perks

$10.00

2 backers

Griffin Beak

$25.00

9 backers

Griffin Wing

$50.00

8 backers

Griffin Talon

$75.00

0 backers

Griffin Tail Feather

$100.00

2 backers

Griffin

$500.00

0 backers

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