Hello, Apogee Family – For more than 15 years, it has been my great privilege to co-direct Apogee alongside Kevin Cashman, my partner and Apogee’s founder. Through thick and thin, we have enjoyed a fantastic journey growing Apogee from a small summer program to the robust enterprise that it is today. As many of you
We are very excited to open our 2025 enrollment and announce the return of Apogee’s extraordinary Early Bird Tuition Discount! Check our Summer 2025 trip schedule HERE! If you enroll in a 2025 Apogee program and submit the $799 trip deposit by the end of the day on Sunday, September 15th, we will discount your
As we wrap up another successful summer season, we are already thinking about next summer – and we start preparing for 2024 by reflecting on the past year and setting goals for the next. This past year, we have continued to advance our diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in meaningful and tangible ways, and
Dear Loyal Reader, After fifty full days of adventure, growth, smiles, and everything in between, the curtains have closed on our 2023 season! We are incredibly proud of our students, our leaders and our staff — what an amazing summer!! We bid adieu to our final two trips in the field, MCCE and NEMC. We
Not sure about you, but for us, it feels like this summer has just flown by! Suddenly, we find ourselves on the second-to-last day of our summer – the penultimate page of our story, if you will. With seven trips ending today and only two left in the field, we’re feeling very reflective about how
After a rainier day yesterday, the sun finally came out and graced all of our trips today! From challenge day hikes in the sunshine to bridge crossings and trip ends, there was no shortage of things to celebrate in the Apo-verse today – so sit back, relax, and read on to see what all our
Every day on trip has a special sort of energy. Some days can only be matched by a the beat of a Queen verse, while others move to the rhythm of a peaceful, soft 1979 Simon and Garfunkel tune. Today, we have hand-picked songs that beautifully illustrate the magic of each trip’s day. While these
Today was a day of true variety! Arrivals and departures, surfing and hiking, Venice and Lac Blanc, Icelandic ice caves and presenting final essays…our Apogee teams are doing everything under the sun today. Different types of awesome sprinkled all over the world and across a plethora of activities! Read on for some highlights from the
From Venice adventures to Acadia hikes our Apogee trips are exploring some of the world’s most amazing places! Today’s blog gets a little technical, as we go to the numbers, taking on the challenge of calculating the massive amounts of fun these groups are having. After some high level mathematical analysis and crunching of numbers,
Lo! On this day, our valiant Apogee explorers doth carry on and toil with might on their quests in the far flung corners of the world. They have undertaken great journeys, from the breadth of epic odysseys of over a thousand miles to behold the shimmering shores of the Adriatic, to traversing the span of