By Grace Wright and her Many Minions It’s Thursday, and we can’t help but be mulling about the Apogee world. How many pounds of summer sausage does our DEX trip go through? What’s the average speed that our ACC bikers travel at while they’re whipping across the country? How many Spanish words do our service
By: Kelly McG (with a lot of help from Google and Tim “Grooble” Gruber) Spirit Animal: a representation of the traits and skills one yearns to have embodied in a living creature While Apogee students and leaders are our spirit animals here in the office, they’re spanning the globe encountering (and sometimes avoiding) incredible real-life animals. So, in
Brought to you by: APO HQ (fueled by free tacos). Today we salute you Benjamin Franklin, our first Postmaster General and all our Postmaster Generals. On this day in 1775, the United States Postal System began running mail on new and improved colonial roads as tension mounted during the Revolutionary era. With the improvements
By: “I Invented YouTube” Tim Gruber and “Drop the Bass” Grace Wright [Ed. Note: NWX, PC, MSA Parents – we’ll get first day pictures up as soon as possible – the good news is that the groups are all gathering without any significant problems this afternoon out west!] After celebrating all things Christmas like Santa’s
By Grace Wright & the Hardworking Apo HQ ‘Twas the night before Apo Christmas, when all across the world Apogee-ans were preparing for another (or first!) day out in the field. Their gear was securely packed tight the night before with great care, In hopes that dropped bags of bagels wouldn’t leave their bellies bare. These
By: Tim “Grubes” Gruber, Gracie “G Muny” Wright, & Hannah “Hans Olo” Gensheimer Oh the wheel on my bike keeps on turning! Oh the 80s, how we miss them. As our office reveled in the sounds of the 80s today, our APO trips near and far were laying down the fresh new beats of today.
By Grace Wright, Tim Gruber & Ghost Writers 5am waking up in the morning, gotta pack my pack, bagel with schmear, seeing everything, summer is flying! Cranking, hiking with everybody, I see my friends! Kicking in the 2nd pod, hiking up a mountain, everybody’s got a smile on, should I eat a blueberry or raspberry
By Grace Wright & the Hardworking Apo HQ Today will mark the unofficial halfway mark of Apogee trips being released ’round the world, which is hard to believe. Someone must be tampering with our clocks, because time is flying by this summer! Speaking of moving fast, we have many trips that continued to scoot along in
By: Kelly, Izzy & Jack It’s a bittersweet day here in the office – while many of our trips are hitting their stride, others are wrapping up all over the world. So, from Acadia to Yosemite, from Seattle to Geneva, let’s say “Hello,” “Goodbye,” and “Keep crushing those miles!” to our friends in the field… Maine Coast Junior
By: Tim Gruber Happy National New Friends Day! Today we strengthened relationships with new friends and said “see you soon” to old friends. Near and far across the land, our Apogeers bike, hike, and serve hand in hand! So many fun adventures on a Tuesday – did you know our ACC1 group is already midway?! Enough prologue