Cortez
Academy
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Mexico Program Video (Windows Media File)
2012 Program Schedule
Contact us for availability. Group Leaders, please
feel free to request additional summer dates or send
us your winter, spring break or May-term dates.
June 2-12
June 28 - July 8
Overview:
The Cortez Academy is a Spanish language immersion
program for high school students with an emphasis on
the marine ecology and culture of the Sea of Cortez
and the Baja California Sur desert hosted by Green Edventures,
in partnership with several locally owned businesses
and families in La Paz. The program was developed from
our flagship adventure Sea Quest
and provides a longer, more immersive academic experience
for students. This 11-day program is all-inclusive with
meals, lodging, transportation, equipment and instruction
which include:
- 5 days (20 contact hours) of group Spanish language
instruction by native instructors from a well established
Spanish Language School in La Paz, Baja California
Sur Mexico.
- 5 nights at a homestay with local families in La
Paz. Each homestay house will have an adult teacher
chaperone and up to 7 students.
- 2 nights at La Duna eco farm with lesson in traditional
activities where students will learn about sustainable
living, water conservation, local plants and their
ethnobotonical uses, and traditional farming including
goat milking, cheese and tortilla making.
- 3 nights camping with eco-adventure activities including
snorkeling, kayaking and hiking at a World Heritage
Site on Espiritu Santo Island where students will
learn about the marine ecology of the Sea of Cortez
and native Mexican anthropology. Students will learn
to identify fish and participate is reef fish surveys.
Program Tuition: Contact us for details 1-888-622-4911
or email info@greenedventures.com
More Information:
Click here for
the itinerary
Click here for answers
to common questions.
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Trip Highlights:
- Dive into an underwater playground with hundreds
of wild sea lions.
- Sleep under the stars on Isla Partida one of 900
gulf island listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- Kayak along red rock formations on calm turquoise
water
- Learn and practice traditional farming at an eco-farm..
- Hike and explore the beautiful and fragile desert
ecosystems.
- Gain 20 hours of spanish speaking instruction by
native speakers.
- Tuition dollars purchase carbon credits making this
a carbon neutral program.
- Earn college credit through the University of WI-
Stevens Point.
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