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Alumni, News

Building Bridges Abroad: Bradley and Garneisha Return From Training in China

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The Island School and The Embassy for the People’s Republic of China celebrated a growing partnership this summer as the Embassy welcomed Bahamian Environmental Steward Scholar alumni (BESS) and Island School alumni Garneisha Pinder (F’10) and Bradley Watson (F’08). Pinder a rising sophomore at The College of The Bahamas and Watson a rising senior at College of Charleston, attended the Training Course on Bio-gas Technology for Developing Countries on May 15th – July 9th. You can hear more about their experiences on Continue reading →

Alumni

IS Alumni & New York Harbor School Students Complete Governor’s Island Swim!

This past Saturday, a group of New York Harbor School students, including three Island School alumni, Chris Lorient (F’10), Gabe Taliaferrow (SP’12), and Arben Ukperaj (SP’11), completed the Governor’s Island Swim! These brave souls, alongside the 300 race participants, endured the 2.0-mile swim around Governor’s Island in New York City–a bit different than the Super Swim these alumni completed during their Island School semester. Congratulations on such an impressive feat! We hope to get some more Island School folks to join you guys next year!

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The 2012 Island School Photo Contest!

Got some great photos from your semester or visit to The Island School and Cape Eleuthera Institute? Then submit them to The 2012 Island School Photo Contest! The Photo Contest is going on now and ends August 31st, 2012, 9:00am ET. You can enter your own, original photos on The Island School and Cape Eleuthera Institute Facebook pages, just as long as they are not defamatory, inflammatory or obscene. We’re looking for photos that best exemplify core values of The Island School:

  • Living better in a place
  • Leadership affecting change
  • Sustainability

and the Cape Eleuthera Institute:

  • Research
  • Field courses
  • Conservation

You can read the full set of rules here: The 2012 Island School Photo Contest Rules

Once the contest has closed on August 31, we will announce the 12 contest finalists for The Island School and 12 finalists for Cape Eleuthera Institute. Then, the general public will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite photos on Facebook from September 1-September 15, 2012. The winner will be announced on September 17th, 2012. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners for both The Island School and Cape Eleuthera Institute will get a copy of their winning photo in a casaurina frame, made by our very own Ashley Mackey. The 9 runner-ups will receive a calendar that includes all 12 of the finalist photos.

Disclaimer: All submissions become the property of the Island School. We reserve the right to reuse all submissions for Marketing & Publicity.

Alumni

Alumni Get-Together in Bay Head, NJ

A group of alumni and their parents got together while Chris Maxey was visiting Bay Head, NJ last week. Rick and Kay Tell (parents of Elizabeth Tell, SP’11) took the crew out on their boat to cruise from Mantoloking to Bay Head. Looks like a boat-load of fun!

From left to right: Kris Lucas (mother of Grace Lucas, SP’08), Elizabeth Tell (SP’11), Julia Rew (F’10), Jane Rew (F’08), Maddie Lucas,  Russ Lucas (father of Grace Lucas, SP’08), Chris Maxey, Pam Rew, Dan Rew

Alumni, Cape Eleuthera Institute, CEI

Summer Shark Intern Blog: Grace Dennis (Su’10)

I’m Grace Dennis, one of the shark interns for the summer. I’m from Houston, TX and study Environmental Biology and Economics at Colgate University. This is my third summer on Eleuthera and I love it here. I first came to the Island School as a student for Summer Term 2010, then again last summer as a shark intern to work on the nurse shark mating project. This summer I’m lucky to be working on all three shark projects, the nurse shark mating project, Ian’s lemon shark predator and prey project, and Edd’s stress physiology project.

Currently shark team is very excited about retrieving a satellite tag, which just spent 8 months on a reef shark. Continue reading →

News

Henry the Boathouse Pigeon

If anyone has been in The Island School boathouse within the last 2 months, then you have most definitely met our new pet pigeon, Henry. Henry came to us one day in June, with a tag on his foot and decided to hang out for a while. Little did we know, Henry was part of a group of pigeons racing from Lille, France to Leeds in the UK. For some reason Henry got a bit off track, a couple thousand miles off track, and ended up here! Henry’s amazing journey has already made into some local news stories in the UK and his fame is only continuing to grow. You can watch this video clip about Henry and read more about him here.

Apprentice Programme

Summer Apprentice Blog: Whitney Knowles

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Whitney Knowles joins Cape Eleuthera Institute as the Small Island Sustainability Aquaculture apprentice from the College of the Bahamas and the UBS scholarship award recipient.  Though she resides in Nassau she considers Eleuthera home,  as she grew up in North Eleuthera and attended Bluff All Age primary school.  Whitney was on the JUMPSTART Programme at Anatol Rodgers High School,  an academic program designed to challenge highly motivated high school students to obtain college credit and to explore career interests before entering college. It was during this time that she became increasingly interested in the study of sea life and first heard of The Island School. After viewing an inside feature on the Island School on channel 13 – BLC, she learned of its alternative food production systems through their aquaculture and aquaponics programs and from there became inspired to go into conservation and marine biology.

She joins the aquaculture research team at CEI until August 17th and is excited about Continue reading →

Educational Programs

Earthwatch Bahamas Comes to CEI

By Shu Hee (Sophie) Kim

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As I arrived in Nassau Airport on July 6th, I remember finding refuge among the small group of other teens wearing olive green Earthwatch shirts. We were all a bit awkward at first – waiting quietly for the last few people to arrive and to fly to Rock Sound Airport. None of us really knew what to expect: all we knew was that the water was a special cerulean blue that can be found nowhere back home, and we were all just waiting for the chance to jump into the ocean sporting our newly bought snorkel, mask, and fins.

What we found at the Island School was something none of us expected. The sustainability of the Cape Eleuthera Island Research Institute seemed more efficient than the “top-notch green” movements that sweep through our hometowns Continue reading →

Alumni

A Day in the Life of Fritter

There are very few people (or animals) who have been at The Island School as long as its founders, Chris and Pam Maxey, and Fritter is one of them. Love him or hate him–either way you probably have some memorable experiences with this fickle feline. The other day, Fritter ran out of food (again) so we caught him first writing an angry email to all staff members, demanding they go out and buy him more Meow Mix. When that didn’t work, he got on the phone to call the marina store to see if they had any Meow Mix lying around and was very upset to find out that they did not…

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Eventually Fritter got over it and went back to doing what he does best.

 

Alumni

Knock, Knock…

…Who’s there? It’s Chris Maxey! Last week, Maxey surprised alum Carter Brown (SP’09) with an early morning visit and dragged him out of bed to do a run-swim in Bay Head on the Jersey Shore. Later that night, Maxey went out to dinner with a big crew of alumni: Elizabeth Tell (SP’11), Jane Rew (F’08), and Julia Rew (F’10).

Watch out, Maxey might show up at your home next!