By the final years of high school, something begins to change. For many students, curiosity gives way to routine. Learning becomes increasingly focused on completing assignments, preparing for exams, and earning grades. The sense of wonder that comes so naturally in childhood (remember that feeling?) can slowly be replaced by simply getting through the next semester. Recent research highlights some of the challenges students face in today's classrooms. According to...
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I’ve always linked traveling to family rather than friends or people my age. Or if it were traveling with people my age, it would be just friends from home. The Amazing Race put me with three other people whom I would have never thought I’d have the chance to travel with, and it was just plain amazing! It honestly did not feel like real life. Those four days were one of the happiest days I’ve had in a very long time, and the happiness it started still lasts until now.
– Charis S, Class of 2014
Everything about this experience, from having to pack the night before the trip to backpacking up a mountain with my team…This is what TGS really is.
– Yada P, Class of 2014