On June 27,
Sean Bennett, who teaches biology at the Career Center and his wife, Colleen,
will be take a group of 11 students in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County high
schools to the Galapagos Islands.
“To my
knowledge,” Bennett said, “this is the first time a group from our school
system has traveled to the place where Charles Darwin gathered the resources to
form his theory of evolution.”
Bennett has
never been to the Galapagos Islands and has always wanted to go. He became
intrigued about the possibility of making the trip real after listening to
Annie Knudsen, who teaches environment science at the Career Center, talking
about a trip she had made to Costa Rica with students.
Bennett
arranged the trip through EF Education First, an international company that organizes
educational trips. Other WS/FC schools had already made trips through the
company and had good experiences.
On the
trip, the Career Center students – whose home high schools include Mount Tabor,
Reynolds, East and Glenn – will be joined by high school students from Los
Angeles, Seattle and Pittsburgh.
The trip
will last until July 5.
The
people in the photo are:
Front
row: Matthew Arcuri (on the phone), Emily Allen (holding the phone), Maddie
Galbreath, Tori Elliott, Cathy Delano, Sheridan Lee, Kaili Griffin, Emily
Madison-Cooper, Colleen Bennett
Back row:
Daniel Faircloth, Sean Bennett, Evan Muday, Paige Watts
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