Global Awareness Day 2013

The Eaglebrook School community celebrated its annual Global Awareness Day on April 25. Each Form spent the day off campus focusing on a particular theme. Mr. Seth Worcester ’80 introduced Global Day to the community during morning assembly on Wednesday. Watch a portion of his introduction here.

The Third and Fourth Forms traveled to local business and farms to learn about what goes on in the valley we live in. Bar Way Farm, The Peoples Pint, Berkshire East, and the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts were just some of the places that opened their doors to Eaglebrook’s youngest students to show them what they do and how they are all trying to run their businesses more sustainably. See photos from the Third and Fourth Form day here.

The Fifth Form went to the Morse Hill Outdoor Education Center in nearby Leverett, Massachusetts to work on their theme for the day, which was leadership. Through ropes courses and other team-building activities, the rising leaders of the school pushed themselves physically and mentally in preparation for their roles as Sixth Formers next year. See photos of their day here.

Sixth Formers spent the morning testing water at local streams and rivers as an extension of the work they are doing in their science classes. Their theme was water. They met as a group that afternoon at the Quabbin Reservoir to learn more about it and its role in supplying drinking water to much of the eastern part of the state. See photos of their day here.

That evening Eaglebrook welcomed Max Heald, brother of Sam ’13 to speak. Max is a senior at Phillips Exeter Academy, and he and his friends made a short film called “The Stairway Project”. The film deals with the plight of street children living in the Philippines. The Stairway Foundation, a group Max volunteered with, works to help rehabilitate these children. Max then spoke to the group about why it is important to take the chance when you are young to do something big. Watch him speak here.

The evening wrapped up with an ice cream party by Whipple Pond, complete with local ice cream with local maple syrup to pour over it. As Seth said in his introductory assembly, “There is much in this world, and there is much right here in our own backyards”.