Monthly Archives: November 2010

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Eight Days, Down Island, Six-Words.

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As our collective community jumped back into the academic swing of things this last monday, I had my literature classes write 6-word memoirs reflecting on their experiences during the last three weeks. Students wrote 6-word memoirs describing their Down Island Trips, Kayak Trips, and 48 hour solos on Lighthouse beach. Enjoy the poignant reflection that can only be provided in six words:

Brigid: “Hungry, singing among moonlit beach trash” (solo)

Augie: “Food babies run from booming speakers” (DIT)

George: “lightening crashes near my spoongebob tarp” (solo)

Daisy: “Happiness in the shape of food” (DIT)

Heather: “Time, peace, patience, simplicity, reflection, discovery” (solo)

Sasha: “Songs never stopped, the sun did” (kayak)

Sarah F. “Watching sand crabs in crazy creek” (kayak)

Hammy: “Meet people I thought I knew” (kayak) Continue reading →

Cacique Update

Cacique Update November 11, 2010

“Too Many Themes!”

 By Caciques Augie Cummings and Aubrey Faggen

As the lights of our dorms turned on, we scrambled out of our comfy beds to get ready for the long day ahead of us. Swim and run track presented us with many challenges yet we all strive for our very best, especially when we are coming closer and closer to our “Super Swim” or half-marathon run. Breakfast as always was a delicious plate of grits, eggs and yummy toasted bread.  Our classes took up most of the day. Everyone is finally getting back into our regular school schedule after those crazy three weeks of kayak rotations. Some of us were still working off Governors Harbor baked goods, Homecoming conch fritters and Goombay slushies. Continue reading →

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K3 Down Island Trip

There is no more wonderful way to start the day than cliff jumping into a blue hole in the Bahamian jungle. Each DIT was able to experience this daybreak glory, but only K3 caught it on video. Watch as Daisy, Augie, Jack, Clay, Louise, Hunter, Ellen, Hammy, Lea, Tucker, Allegra and Aly, lead by faculty: Francesca, Gabe and Ashley take the leap, one by one, saluting the morning with screams of joy. And stay to see if Allegra, the last to face the leap, will indeed have the courage to make the jump…

Cacique Update

Cacique Update November 10, 2010

“Your World Through Our Eyes”

by Caciques Ashlie Thompson and Jack DeVries

Students had the option of waking up to a morning free dive: our minds entering another world as we enter the water, a place of calmness and beauty that is all natural. This is what many of my classmates decided to do on their Wednesday morning sleep in time. On these mornings we would explore the beauty of another world. While the rest of us went into the depth of our minds and succumbed to dreams on end while safe in their cozy dorm beds.

Sadly, there are no more eighth and fourth graders here as St. Andrews departed this morning, leaving breakfast back to its usual Wednesday morning granola which everyone has begun to enjoy more and more as the weeks prolong. Human Ecology electives was the first part of our agenda that we jumped right into. Continue reading →

Cape Eleuthera Institute

Introducing: Aquaponics Research

by Apon students: Brandon, Garneisha, Ashlie, Sasha, George, and Perry.

Adventurers of sustainable fish farming

Quest to understand why tilapia have a musty flavor

Understand how to rid tilapia of this flavor

Amazed by results

Pondering how to make tilapia taste better than wild tilapia

Opened our mind to aquaponics

Apon students, led by their teacher Josh Schultz, slip through scales and slice through filets, preparing their first round of tilapia for flavor testing.

Necessary to sustain our current population

Interesting

Clever

SUSTAINABLE

This semester in Aquaponics our research team investigated the impact of finishing our tiliapia in different conditions before harvest. We purged our tilapia, which is when they go without food in order to rid them of funky tasting fat deposits, for two weeks while also finishing them in different salinities. We thought, because people tend to prefer salt water fish, that fish finished in saltier water would improve the overall flavor of fish. Tilapia often has a muddy or musty flavor. Since over fishing is a problem in South Eleuthera it is much more beneficial to eat farmed fish that actually taste better. We are excited for our parents to understand more about the aquaponics research in a few weeks!

AQUAPONICS: Conquering the funky taste of tilapia is our goal.

Cacique Update

Cacique Update, November 9, 2010

“Brr its cold in here, there must be some islanders in the atmosphere”

by Caciques George Giannos and Allegra Rumbough

We awoke to a cool autumn morning in The Bahamas. Although it was around 70 degrees, we were all wearing winter hats and fleeces. We have all adapted to this warm weather that we are blessed with and we all are awaiting tropical storm Tomas to just pass by for good. We are done with all of the cold weather! Today we recognized that we only have 28 days left until the end of the semester, exactly 4 weeks. The community was in awe that time has flown by so fast, and we discussed our goals for the following month to come. Continue reading →

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Faculty Spotlight–Meet Kristen Key!

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Kristen grew up on the shores of sunny Florida. She received her B.S. in Science Education from Florida State University after completing her student teaching at Maritime and Science Technology Academy (MAST). During the summers of 2007 and 2008, she served as a Science Instructor, lifeguard, and SCUBA rescue diver at Seacamp in the Florida Keys. Most recently, Kristen worked at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA where she spent her weekends volunteering as a Naturalist with Ocean Alliance/Cape Ann Whale Watch. She has also volunteered with Boston’s New England Aquarium as a Science Instructor for Harbor Discoveries marine and environmental science camp. At The Island School, Kristen is teaching Science and is very excited about incorporating SCUBA into the Science curriculum. Outside of teaching, Kristen also enjoys diving, surfing, dancing, and boating with her water pup Reef.

Cacique Update

Cacique Update November 8, 2010

“Our Last Month Stretch”

by Caciques Garneisha Pinder and Will Overman

Today, it hit me like thunder: Remo reiterated that today November 8th 2010 marking our last month stretch at The Island School. We have four weeks here to get after it, and leave our mark here. 

Our day started with Human Ecology final project selections. We broke off into groups: food, transportation, urban development, miscellaneous, humanities, bees etc. There, we discussed ideas, wrote questions about what we wanted to do, and formulated our plans of action. Once our groups had been permanently established, we set off to get the structure of our plans finalized. We were off to save the world. These projects focus on, not only helping The Island School, but the rest of our home communities, and even generations to come. Continue reading →