Allen Academy LEAP Week gives students global learning opportunities
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) – Students at Allen Academy are back home after getting to explore local government, camp in national parks and even travel internationally.
The program is called LEAP Week, which stands for learn, explore, adapt and play.
Students were able to choose between traveling to places like Washington D.C. and Guatemala, camping in national parks, internships and faculty seminars.
One student shadowed a PHD candidate studying oceanography at Texas A&M University. She said she’s known since she was little that this was the career path for her, and her experience solidified it.
”It was really special to be able to think, like, ‘Oh, this is what I want to do in the future,’ and getting a glimpse into that and being able to actually analyze the data and read the background and just learn,” Kendall Hanover, a senior, said.
The program also gives students a chance to learn outside of the classroom. Those lessons go beyond academics.
A group of students went to Guatemala to build a well in a community. Sandy Brown, the Spanish teacher who took them, said it was a ‘life-changing’ experience for her students.
“That was my prayer. I just wanted that seed to be planted and hope that they will go on and be missionaries; and just go and help the community wherever they go,” she said.
It’s the program’s first year back after the pandemic.
