2016-06-30T08:38:18-07:00 2015-12-31 Fothergill Segale & Valley CPAs 143 Barre Street Montpelier VT 05602 990 2015-01-01 030363893 HIGH 5 ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC HIGH 8022548718 130 AUSTINE DRIVE BRATTLEBORO VT 05301 JAMES GROUT President 2016-06-24 true E Lela McCaffrey CPA P00476486 8022236261 2015 2016-09-27 15:27:22Z 2467869 false false X WWW.HIGH5ADVENTURE.ORG X 1999 VT DEDICATED TO HELPING INDIVIDUALS, SCHOOLS, AND COMMUNITIES USE EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION AS AN EFFECTIVE TOOL FOR IMPROVING THE WAY THEY LIVE, LEARN, AND WORK TOGETHER. 7 7 29 20 0 63076 17060 1429701 2233356 25 102 135669 189787 1628471 2440305 0 0 761387 873114 0 0 864398 993886 1625785 1867000 2686 573305 191911 803462 254014 292260 -62103 511202 DEDICATED TO HELPING INDIVIDUALS, SCHOOLS, AND COMMUNITIES USE EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION AS AN EFFECTIVE TOOL FOR IMPROVING THE WAY THEY LIVE, LEARN, AND WORK TOGETHER. false false 1009955 1226573 CHALLENGE COURSE SERVICES: Challenge Course services provides the tools and equipment that support adventure programming. We design, install, inspect and repair challenge courses of all sizes, provide ongoing consulting services to these programs, and partner with our customers to integrate all of High 5s services in ways that schools, youth and service organizations, camps, etc., can afford. Total sites served: 232. 382258 562061 TRAINING AND TEAM DEVELOPMENT: Training and Team Development teaches individuals, schools, businesses, and communities from across the Northeast how to improve problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills, increase team communication and performance, create an atmosphere of cooperation, trust and encouragement, and discover and effectively capitalize on group resources. Through our technical and facilitation trainings and our Annual Symposium, hundreds of teachers and school staff, social service workers, camp staff, military and law enforcement personnel and many others train with us each year to guide their own adventure programs, learn and improve their challenge course technical skills and develop their own facilitation skills and style. We give them the tools that they need to make a difference in other peoples lives. Total served in 2015: 3,522. Over the past 3 years, 9,590 people have been served in 14 states. 47975 214901 EDGE OF LEADERSHIP: The Edge of Leadership program provides adventure-based youth leadership development through work performed in schools and on our Brattleboro campus and challenge course. Our three experiential educators with 54 years of collective experience guide students in grades 5 through 12 -- and their teachers -- to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills, increase social and emotional intelligence, work collaboratively in and out of the classroom, manage projects while guiding and leading others, and open doors to improving school culture and academic performance. In 2015 EOL launched a 3-year demonstration project to apply the EOL model system-wide in the Keene, NH school district. All 5th graders receive monthly 90-minute sessions in the classroom plus 2 days on the challenge course, for 32 hours of contact time. 7th graders receive 90-minute sessions every other month plus a Challenge course day, for 14 contact hours. High school groups pick a particular issue to work on and improve in their school, with leadership development programming that includes teachers. Total served in 2015: 229 students, 25 teachers, 13 sites. 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