Grit BLOG

Adventure Club Students experiencing joy and building confidence

By Jenny Sandbo, Y.E.T.I. Volunteer Sadie grew up in Oak Harbor, Washington. So, when students from Highline High School Adventure Club planned a winter camping trip to Deception Pass State Park, it felt like going home. A familiar place full of great childhood memories. “Yeah, let’s go camping in November! …they totally roughed it. It […]

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Getting Kids Outside with After School Programs

By Jenny Sandbo, Y.E.T.I. Volunteer Nate is learning a lot, but he’s not a student. He has been volunteering as an Outdoor Club Mentor at Glacier Middle School, taking youth on outdoor adventures after school. With Y.E.T.I. he’s learning patience, problem-solving, and meeting kids where they are. He is reminded that early opportunities can have

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Making outdoor adventures accessible for middle school students in South King County

By Jenny Sandbo, Y.E.T.I. Volunteer “Would you rather fight 25 rat-size hippos or one hippo-sized rat?” Maddie says this is one of the questions Program Manager Sean asks students attending Y.E.T.I.’s after school programs. It’s a divisive question, sparking energetic debate about how students could prevail against an army of tiny hippos (or one gigantic

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Grayl: Supporting student access to outdoor experiences with funding and gear donations

By Jenny Sandbo, Y.E.T.I. Volunteer “there’s a therapeutic grounding that happens when you’re in the outdoors…a confidence builder that happens when you have to be self-reliant and work through challenges” says Chris Lowe, Youth Experiential Training Institute (Y.E.T.I.) Board of Directors and Fundraising Committee member. For many of us it is intuitive – we know

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