Outdoor School Programs and Places Spotlights
Across Oregon Outdoor School programs, sites, and people are doing great work. Read all about it here!
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Elmira High Schoolers Take the Lead at Outdoor School
June, 2025
Many Outdoor School programs rely on high school leaders to help instructors and teachers with science lessons. At Fern Ridge, the high school students are the teachers…
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Student Leader Scholarships at MESD Outdoor School
October, 2024
Since the 1980s, kids and community members have donated to a scholarship program that honors high school leaders and helps them in the next stage of their lives…
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Collaborative Cabin Restorations at Camp Westwind
June, 2024
Students who attend Outdoor School at Westwind near Lincoln City learn something pretty unique: the bunks they sleep in were designed and built by high school students…
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High School Leadership at Rogue Outdoor School
January, 2024
How do you recruit high schoolers to be leaders when most of the high schoolers in your community have never even been to Outdoor School? For Rogue Outdoor School , the answer is any way you can…
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Helping Out at Outdoor School
October, 2023
Teams of Elgin kids prepare, serve, and clean up after meals. Everyone helps, so everyone knows what it takes to pull off a community event. And everyone can build an appreciation for the work that others do in the community…
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Community Science at Eastern Oregon Outdoor Schools
May, 2023
As members of Qapqápnim Wéele, a Community Science Project, students from all over the Grande Ronde watershed are doing real science while performing an act of reciprocity…
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Sunny Wolf Charter School Outdoor School
January, 2023
At Cape Arago on the southern Oregon coast, teacher Shawn Hardy’s voice rings out. “Come here, everyone, you have to see this! This is something I’ve NEVER seen before…”
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A Summer Leadership Institute for High School Leaders
September, 2021
The Summer Leadership Institute was a chance for students to explore their leadership skills through the lens of the outdoor industry, helping students see themselves as leaders in the outdoors…
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Straub Outdoor School Field Bags
May, 2021
The Friends of Outdoor School team recently learned that Straub Outdoor School has an incredible partnership with the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville…
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Tamarack Virtual Outdoor School
January, 2021
While spending time at an Outdoor School site is much preferred to a computer screen, the Camp Tamarack Outdoor School staff has been making the best of what the pandemic has thrown at them…
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Northwest Outdoor Science School
October, 2020
With this new Outdoor School Programs & Places Spotlight, we will share stories focused on the important initiatives of the people doing great work for Oregon kids. I hope you enjoy getting to know them…
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Outdoor School is a place where every child can belong.
Our Mission
Friends of Outdoor School’s purpose is to connect, support, and advocate for all of Oregon’s diverse students to learn at inclusive and accessible Outdoor School programs that contribute to educational development, inspire youth, promote personal growth, and embrace justice.