We love hearing from our alumni, especially when they’re coming to us with job opportunities for other IS alumni!  Kate Parks, FA’03, works for a non-profit in South Carolina called The Coastal Conservation League and came to us when there was an opening for a project manager.  She said that “a lot of the skills I use each day were developed during my time at The Island School and I think other alumni would find this position interesting.”  Continue reading →

“Breathtaking Oceans, Cramped Dorms and Incredible Heat”

by Griffin Hunt, Ihna Mangundayao, Jamie Perritt, Benjamin Beardsley, Katie Tapper

Over the past two days, 31 students have arrived from all over the world to meet breathtaking oceans, cramped dorms and incredible heat. Even though we all experienced the same oceans and similar views, no person’s experience of the past few days has been remotely comparable. Even as a small group of five, we were unable to come up with one single experience in which we all shared the same complex emotions– from jumping into the water for the first time and seeing a nurse shark on our casual 7am snorkel to the feeding frenzy in the pig pen to pretending to know the Bahamian national anthem as we joined around the flag pole as the sun rose.  Even though we were partaking in the same activities, each one meant something different to each of us.  Spending our first night in the dorm, shared with 6 or more other people, caused thoughts from home, fears of the weeks that lie ahead, and excitement for the unknown to race through our heads. Each of our fleeting thoughts faded into another, leaving us wide-awake in the middle of a pitch-black dorm room. Continue reading →

Check out this miraculous story about a shorebird that had been tagged and found on the island of Eleuthera.  What’s even more interesting is that the tag on this bird was made by the same company, Microwave Telemetry, Inc., that makes the deepwater shark tags we use at CEI!

“Anxious scientists watched with relief this weekend when a satellite signal assured them that a small shorebird they had been tracking somehow managed to survive flying through some dangerous winds of Hurricane Irene. The whimbrel, nicknamed Chinquapin by the Georgia wildlife staffers who tagged him with a radio transmitter, had taken off from his summer feeding grounds on Southampton Island in Canada’s Arctic on Aug. 22. Continue reading →

Although October 7-9 seems far away at this point, it’s never too early to make your plans to come down to The Island School for the on-island reunion!  All alumni, parents, and former faculty are invited to come back to the Cape for this weekend-long celebration.  We hope to see you all there!

Please note: An attendee under the age of 18 MUST be accompanied by his or her parent.  An alumnus MAY NOT have another alum’s parent act as their guardian. 

The cost of the reunion is $100 per person.  This is NOT a tax deductible donation.  Your check will cover five meals on campus, including a special event at Barracuda’s, transportation to and from Lighthouse Beach on Sunday, and activities such as snorkeling, kayaking, and research.

To officially RSVP to the event, fill out this form and send your $100 check to  Continue reading →

Friends and Families,

We have heard that everyone is ok and safe on Cape Eleuthera! Since this morning, Irene has moved on and the winds are steadily dropping. The Island School campus has faired well with no broken windows and no significant damages. The plants on campus have been denuded so we are going to look a little bare for a couple of months.

Everyone is accounted for and happy to breathe some fresh air and stretch their legs after a long night inside.  We have plenty of water and are getting our generators up and running.  We expect to have spotty communications for the next couple of days as the community recovers and gets back to life as normal.

We want to send out a big thank you to John “Giant” Norris Carey forbuilding some of the toughest buildings in the world.

–The Island School