Maine Youth Environmental Leader Scholarship
We are excited to announce that the Maine Youth Environmental Leader Scholarship for 2026-2027 at Maine Coast Semester is now ...
Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki
Thriving, Not Just Surviving: A First Look at Our Partnership with Sapien Labs
At Maine Coast Semester, we’ve always believed that the best version of a student emerges when they are "unplugged" from ...
Never Enough
Back in 2021, Chewonki received a visit from Washington Post author Jennifer Wallace who was traveling through Maine to pick ...
Inside the Teaching Fellow Experience at Maine Coast Semester
(Left to right: Johnny Vallo, Isabelle Stewart, Brook Heston, Anna Solomon) This week, we caught up with four faculty embarked ...
Welcome to our next Director of Maine Coast Semester, Sarah Rebick!
Dear Chewonki Community, I am pleased to announce that Sarah Rebick has been unanimously chosen by our search committee and ...
DITL: Maine Coast Semester
6:45 | Wake up The morning starts with a loud 6:45 wakeup- everyone’s alarms go off at the same time, ...
Wild Wonki Wizards!
As classes were beginning and my peers and I were just beginning to know each other, I discovered a common ...
Books and Best Buddies
Growing up, I have always been an avid reader. I was always a more advanced reader than my peers and ...
Ha-MOOSE-inating in Maine
For some reason, I’ve always had an affinity for moose (or as I like to call them, Meese). They’re just ...
A Springtime Swim
I had just gotten back to my cabin after our field lab when suddenly we heard a knock at the ...
Going Solo! – 48 Hours on Chewonki Neck
Applying to Maine Coast Semester, I always knew about the iconic Chewonki Solo. Sure, it was 48 hours spent out ...
Big Night: A Blog From the Frogs
I came to Maine Coast Semester for many reasons, but amphibians were not one of them. I was oblivious to ...
Introducing our 2023 Maine Youth Environmental Leaders Scholars
We are pleased to announce the 2023 recipients of the “Maine Youth Environmental Leaders Scholarships (MYELS),” a $15,000 scholarship awarded ...
Outdoor Leadership Weekend!
From Thursday to Sunday last week we had our Outdoor Leadership Weekend, and I was put into the half of ...
The Power of the Plunge
On January 29, 2023, day one at Chewonki, I completed my first-ever polar bear plunge. Having only before this day ...
Life Among the Crabs
In what one would expect to be the heat of early April, Tuesday’s field lab set off under a sheet ...
An Ex-STREAM-ly Fun Field Lab
When I first came to Chewonki, I was the most nervous about our field labs. Five hours in the woods? ...
A Maine Coast Semester Birthday!
What do you get when you cross 42 students with four months time? A lot of birthdays! Throughout Semester 70, ...
Into the Night: 3 AM Lamb Watch
Picture this–lamb cam has been going on for WEEKS and just the other day the first two lambs were born. ...
A Day in the Life of a Wonky Student
6:20 – Wake up This is the time that the majority of my cabin mates wake up, so everyone’s alarms ...
Uh Oh… SPECIES QUIZ!
When I arrived at Chewonki, I was most nervous about the infamous Species Quizzes. I had been told terrifying tales ...
Chewonki Chicken Chores
One of the things that really sold me on coming to Chewonki was the farm. As a total city kid, ...
A Stellar Sighting: Finding the Steller’s Sea Eagle
In our Natural History and Ecology of the Maine Coast class we have been talking a lot about birding. Luckily ...
Morning Kitchen Chores
Every morning we have to be dressed and out in the frigid cold by 6:55 to be ready for chores, ...