Location: Shovel Point, Lake Superior; Photo Credit: David Morgan
Greetings VOBSters,
May is an exciting month for VOBS! We are gearing up for our triumphant return to summer programming!
Join us in welcoming field staff back to our Twin Cities and Ely basecamps for All Staff Training, and celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Twin Cities Center (which has moved!! See note below for more detail).
There's a lot of excitement and a LOT of work going into summer prep. We will return to in-person summer programming with more than 45 expeditions this summer! This will put us on track to serve over 650
students before the year is out. Please join us in recognizing and celebrating each employee and stakeholder for their unique contributions to our early 2021 success. We’re meeting student need for belonging, strength and purpose! It’s hard work. A true team of very dedicated people, driven to serve, leads VOBS into a year of recovery and strength. We encourage you to reach out to any VOBSters that you know and give them a virtual high five! You can also send an email here and we'll share your words of support and encouragement with the whole team!
This Alumni's blog post about her time in Texas with VOBS on an Outdoor Educator expedition
OK Go's Sandbox - where science and art meet, and playing is learning
A 20-year tradition of Momma and her ducklings parading from this middle school's courtyard, through the building and out the front door, transitioning the little
ducklings from their cozy secluded home to fly on their own out it in the wild
VOTE FOR VOBS
Voyageur Outward Bound School has been nominated as an organization in the Star Tribune Minnesota's Best awards. Vote for us in these three categories:
Education-Adult Learning
Education-Outdoor Education
Services-Nonprofits
In order to be named a "best" in any of these categories, we need you to vote! Voting is super easy - click on the link below, navigate to the categories and submit your ballot. You can vote once a day, from now until May 21st! Results will be published in the Minnesota's Best Winners Magazine on Sunday, August 1st.
"It’s “Q2” for VOBS, or the second quarter of 2021. We are paddling into a very busy season and plan to deliver a robust summer of in-person challenge and adventure– Hooray! We cannot wait to return to summer expeditions, and life-changing, in-person experiences, but we’d like to pause and highlight some of the progress we’ve made on our 2021 Plan to date. One of our strategic 2021 goals is to “conduct clear and consistent communication.” To that end, today we share our Progress-to-Plan for the first quarter of 2021."
"My Outward Bound experience was nothing short of utterly life-changing! I thrived in a new found and seemingly endless fountain of positivity that came with a ‘big climb mentality.” I cannot wait to bring it all home. This course has given more to me than I ever thought I’d get out of an outdoor expedition. I am truly in awe of how I have changed, and
feel a bizarre excitement at the upending of my previous perception of my own life. I attribute my excitement to the growth I feel I’ve undergone. I cannot wait to explore the world and ride life’s wave.”
The VOBS Leadership Semester is a “gap” experience like no other. Develop as a leader. Learn. Aspire and inspire. Then strive to make a positive difference in the world. Go Outward
Bound with a Leadership Semester this year.
Start Date: June 15th, 2021 End Date: August 8th, 2021 Length: 55 Days Age: 18+
VOBS strives to serve every student, regardless of income. By making a donation today, you help make it possible for everyone to experience Outward Bound. Your donation helps young teens working on rebuilding their family relationships, veterans looking to find success beyond the military, and adults on the precipice of their next life stage. A gift to VOBS is just one way to demonstrate the lasting value of this experience. Thank you!
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