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Alumni Spotlight: Catherine Argyrople
Catherine Argyrople is preparing for her movie debut. Our alumni are always inspiring us with the incredible things they go on to do after their Island School experience. Catherine Argyrople…
Should We Be Friends?: An Island School Story
Friendship can be found in the most unlikely places. One of the treasures of The Island School is the way in which students from all different backgrounds come together and…
Tips for Transitioning Home From Your Study Away
So you just returned home after spending a semester away and you’re trying to settle back into your “home” routine? Students and families often ask, how do we make the…
Alumni Reflection: Emily Boring
July 14th, 2013 “I’m sitting on a tarp on a stretch of beach that no one else will enter for 24 hours. The horizon is gray and blurry; I can’t…
Alumni Spotlight: Mermaid Tonia
When a student attends The Island School, whether a Deep Creek Middle School Student, a young learner at the Elementary Learning Center, or a Semester student, they are beginning a…
Alumni Spotlight: Chevelle Dixon S01
Twenty-two years have passed since Chevelle Dixon S01 first set foot on The Island School campus, but in 2020, in the midst of a global pandemic, Chevelle mentally transported herself…
Casita Chaos: How do discards in the Bahamian Spiny Lobster fishery affect predator-prey dynamics?
BAHAMIAN SPINY LOBSTER FISHERY Have you ever eaten a lobster tail at a restaurant like Red Lobster? If so, most likely, you have eaten a Caribbean spiny lobster tail. These…
Alumni Spotlight: Supporting Cod populations
Reader about how Emilie Geissinger a S08 Semester alumna and 2015 research intern is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. These days she’s traded tropical waters for colder temperatures, and she has The Island School to thank for that!
Alumni Spotlight: A Pivotal Experience
By Rachel Fry, Former Island School Semester Faculty When I look back at my time working at The Island School Semester, I see it as a pivotal experience that directed…
Climate Change & Sustainability in The Bahamas
My name is Dylan Harding, and I am 17 years old and currently a senior in public high school In New York City. For the spring semester of my junior…
Sustainable Waste Management
Sustainable waste management at the Island School begins inside the Tingum Center. The open-air storage bay is home to glass bottles, tin cans, warped cardboard, and other discarded articles. The majority of these items, in keeping with our environmental ethos, will be reused or repurposed into new, useful materials.
Alumni Spotlight: Saving the Great Barrier Reef
What does an Island School Semester alumna, with degrees in Computer Science and Marine Biology go on to do? Save the Great Barrier Reef, of course! Megs Malpani, a S13…
Alumni Spotlight: Jessie Gray S15
Island School Semester Alumna, Jessie Gray’s, love for the ocean runs deep. As a child, she grew up lobstering with her grandfather off the coast of Maine. Today she is…
How Plants Adapt to Climate Change
Fall 2021 Semester students in the permaculture research class commenced their project with the question, ‘What is the most vulnerable portion of our campus landscape to climate impacts and how…
Ellie Corbett, SP’15, Interns with Dr. Edith Widder
Ellie Corbett’s last jump off High Rock during Spring 2015. Growing up on the coast, Ellie, SP ’15, knew she loved the ocean long before going to The Island School.…
Island School alum, CEI Grad Student featured on Cal Bears site
Mackey Violich, a former student from fall 2006, and now a graduate student at the Cape Eleuthera Institute through Florida State University, has been featured on the Cal Bear website. At…
New England Road Trip: The Island School Admissions Team is in Full Swing of Travel Season
Last week our admissions team, Taylor Hoffman (SP‘06), Maggie Nichols (F‘09), and Glenn Hartman-Mattson (Faculty‘14-15), visited high schools and colleges throughout New England! We spoke with prospective students and caught…
HIOBS group prepares to head out
Today marks the start of the Hurricane Island Outward Bound Maine to Bahamas sailing expedition to the Exuma Cays! After 10 days on campus learning about sustainability, the marine environment,…
Fore the Ocean: Future Island School students clean up Monterey Bay
Monterey Bay is full of golf balls, Alex and Jack are the “somebodies” to do something about it. Alex Weber and Jack Johnston will be students attending The Island School…
Alumni Spotlight: Carter Brown (Sp ’09)
Our bus came up a short hill, rounded the last corner and before us was a sign marking the entrance. The Island School! As we crunched and bounced down the…
Alumni Spotlight: Devin Gilmartin (F’14) and Tegan Maxey
If you have been following this blog for a while, you may remember back in May when we published a piece about Fall 2014 alum Devin Gilmartin and his 2020…
You completed us!
5 years ago, we set out with an eye on July 1, 2016. We dreamed big. You believed in us. The Sharing Solutions fundraising campaign was launched with a Big,…
Alumni Spotlight: Maddie Hawk (SP ’10)
Maddie Hawk from the Spring 2010 Island School recently graduated from DePauw University with a double major in English (literature) and film studies. She was a member of Phi Beta…
Summer Expeditionary Program ready to set sail!
We at the Island School are pleased to announce, in partnership with Hurricane Island Outward Bound, the first Expeditionary Summer Term. The program takes the form of a 19-day sailing…
Welcome directors!
Our board of directors leadership team gathered on Eleuthera this weekend to see the programs in action, and honor the contributions of faculty, board members, and alumni. Thank you to…
First Island School Student to Presents Research Poster at BNHC
CEI was well represented at the regional 2016 Bahamas Natural History Conference, with representatives giving talks on plastics, climate change, rare shrimp, turtles, conch, sharks and lionfish. More excitingly, the first…
IS BESS students talk ponds at conferences
Christian McIntosh, a BESS scholar and a Fall 15 Inland Ponds Research Class student, recently presented the group’s work at the Abaco Science Alliance Conference. This conference is a biannual event hosted by…
Krissy Truesdale is still at it!
Krissy Truesdale (F’13) continues to do important work in her community. In this blog piece written by her, she talks about the importance of education and personal drive for inspiring…
Board Leadership in Action
Drew Fink (F’05) gets pinned by Chris and Pam Maxey during the evening celebrations hosted by longtime supporters Les and Wendy Morris In January, the Board of Directors for The…
Local Students partner with Island School kitchen staff
The kitchen staff at the Island School recently hosted two classes of high school students from Preston H Albury High School. During their time here, the students worked with Sophia…
A busy week with The Island School Research Symposium and Parent’s Week
Last Thursday was The Island School Research Symposium! It is a highlight of Parent’s Week, and a time for parents to hear about the good work being done by their…
Exploring the social side of sea turtle conservation in Eleuthera
Historically, sea turtles were considered to be an economically and culturally important food source throughout the Caribbean. Since the discovery of the New World, sea turtle populations throughout the Caribbean…
Shark Research and Conservation Program Begins Novel Deep-Water Shark Telemetry Project
Deep-water sharks are slow growing, slow to mature, and have a relatively small number of young, and as a result are extremely vulnerable to human-based disturbances. This, coupled with the…
Goggles or Sneakers? It’s Track Time by Christian McIntosh
When people think of Island School they usually think of the sustainability, kayak trips and maybe even lightning position, but rarely do we think of the run and swim tracks…
CEI represented at the 13th annual FSBI conference at Plymouth University, UK
Plymouth University and the historical Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom hosted the 2015 Fisheries Society of the British Isles annual conference. This year’s symposium theme was the biology,…
The South Eleuthera Children’s Camp celebrates its 20th year!
Friday, July 24th marked the culmination of the 20th summer of the South Eleuthera Children’s Camp at Cape Eleuthera. Fourteen children between the ages of 8 and 14 attended the…
Anderson Cabot Family Leadership Gift takes Sharing Solutions Campaign to the Crest of the Wave
Ed Anderson and Linda Cabot step up to the top of our giving pyramid with a $2 MM total pledge. In addition to helping us build the new Anderson Cabot Graduate…
Anderson Cabot Family Leadership Gift takes Sharing Solutions Campaign to the Crest of the Wave
Ed Anderson and Linda Cabot step up to the top of our giving pyramid with a $2 MM total pledge. In addition to helping us build the new Anderson Cabot…
Mackey recounts her deep-sea adventures with Dr. Edith Widder in the Gulf of Mexico
My journey started as an Island School student back in Fall 2006, before Cape Eleuthera Institute even existed. The bridge across the mangroves was just being built. After my semester…
Summer Term: BANANAS about the swim test
As we headed into the first few days of Summer Term many of us weren’t sure what to expect. However, now that we have spent a bit of time here…
The Island School Partners With Hurricane Island Outward Bound to Offer Sailing Expeditions
Hurricane Island Outward Bound School (HIOBS) is partnering with The Island School to launch an expeditionary sailing program to be operated out of The Island School’s campus in Cape Eleuthera,…
The Island School Partners With Hurricane Island Outward Bound to Offer Sailing Expeditions
Hurricane Island Outward Bound School (HIOBS) is partnering with The Island School to launch an expeditionary sailing program to be operated out of The Island School’s campus in Cape Eleuthera,…
The Maxeys Make it to Bermuda!
Following the SEA Change Youth Summit held at The Island School June 5-7, Chris & Pam Maxey and their crew made up of Brittney Maxey, Mike Cortina (CSD sustainability teacher…
Island School Hosts an International Youth Summit with Musician, Jack Johnson and 5 Gyres
This past weekend The Island School hosted the SEA Change Youth Summit with musician, Jack Johnson and 5 Gyres to raise awareness about the impacts of plastic pollution in the ocean and…
Staff Spotlight: Peter Zdrojewski
Name: Peter Zdrojewski Where are you from?: The Paris of the Midwest, also known as Cleveland, Ohio Where were you before this?: Teaching marine ecology to high school students in…
IS and CEI Hosting 2015 Youth Action Island Summit June 5-7
The Island School and Cape Eleuthera Institute, in partnership with 5Gyres, musician Jack Johnson and All At Once, are excited to host the Youth Action Island Summit on our Cape Eleuthera campus…
STAFF SPOTLIGHT: OLIVIA GELL
Name: Olivia Gell Where are you from? New York Where were you before this? I was studying at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania What brought you to The…
Staff Spotlight: Mik Cooper
Name: Mik Cooper Where are you from? New York City Where were you before this? Directly before arriving on Eleuthera I was in New York City but before that I…
Island School Research Class Helps Assess the Local Reef Invertebrate Populations
Read about some of the amazing real-world work Island School students are doing in their research class taught by researchers at the Cape Eleuthera Institute! http://blog.ceibahamas.org/2015/05/13/island-school-research-class-helps-assess-the-local-reef-invertebrate-populations/
Meet your Caciques of the week!
Name: Gus Where are you from?: Bloomington, IN How did you find out about The Island School?: My brother went– SP12 Name one thing not many people know about you:…
Happy Mother’s Day!
Happy Mother’s Day from the girl’s dorm!
Blackbeard, the Manatee, in Boathouse Cut!
This morning we were visited by a large manatee in the Boathouse Cut! Educational Programs Lead Educator, Tiffany Gray, shared photos and information on the sighting with Bahamas Marine Mammal Research…
STAFF SPOTLIGHT: EMMA ALEXANDER
Name: Emma Alexander Histories Teacher, Dean of Students Where are you from? Cambridge, MA Where were you before this? Cape Town, South Africa What brought you to Eleuthera? I was…
Meet your Caciques of the week!
With only half the students on campus, this week’s Caciques have done a great job of setting the tone and bringing energy to campus. Name: Olivia Where are you from?:…
Meet your Caciques of the week!
This week’s Caciques helped guide the student body through a rigorous academic week and kept things light with a campus-wide game of assassin (the winner has yet to be crowned).…
Good Luck K1!
The first kayak group headed out this morning! We’re looking forward to hearing their stories in 8 days.
Meet Your Caciques of the Week!
This week’s Caciques finished off another great week. Here’s a little bit about them. Name: Jessa Where are you from?: Grand Rapids, MI How did you find out about The…
Staff Spotlight: Flora Weeks
Flora Weeks joined The Island School as a math teacher this past fall after spending a year working in Maine at Chewonki. When not teaching math, Flora can be found leading…
Meet your Caciques of the week!
This week’s Caciques have been hard at work running daily circles, finding ways to make meal times more exciting, and acting as student leaders. A highlight of their week was…
Staff Spotlight: Alex Cook
The Island School is thrilled to welcome our newest faculty member Alex Cook this spring. When not advising and leading kayak trips, Alex can be found hard at work in the…
CEI Gap Year Triathalon
Education and research may be the staples of CEI, but they are just the tip of the iceberg. As part of the Gap Program, the students train throughout their semester…
Gap Year Students in the Field with the Lionfish and Sustainable Fisheries Teams
Gap Year students spent an afternoon with the sustainable fisheries program, dissecting lionfish and engaging in discussion about the invasive species. During the dissection students poked at lionfish visceral fat…
Final weeks, final research with the Gap Year students
The Spring 2014 Gap Year students are nearing the end of their program here at CEI. The last portion of the course is a three week internship with one of…
DCMS and ELC Students Compete in Jr. Junkanoo
Hours of practice and hard work paid off for Deep Creek Middle School students last Saturday night at The 2014 Eleuthera Jr. Junkanoo held in Governors Harbour. Accompanying DCMS for…