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 ...
Get Tickets for Homecoming Day, September 16
Pack up your dancing shoes, grab your loved ones, and join us on the stunning coast of Maine this September ...
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 ...
Meet Ike and Ginger
Meet Ike and Ginger, the two newest members of our farm team!
The Amazing Lambcam!
It's back! The Amazing Lambcam is standing by to capture the birth of our spring lambs.
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, ...
Connecting at Chewonki
Although my time here at Chewonki is still in its beginning stages, I have found so many deep and meaningful ...
Hanging with Hobart: Welcoming Life at the Farm
Last night, nearing the end of study hours, Semester 70 was scattered across various rooms when we received some very ...
Ready, Set – Ringette!
During my first week of school here, I had a meeting with my advisor, Andrew, that was scheduled for one ...
Meet Semester 69’s Maine Youth Environmental Scholar!
For the past four years, Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki has offered a merit-based scholarship to support emerging young leaders ...
Living With New People
For four months I get to call South Hall my home. It’s red with a moss covered roof and fairly ...
Putting the Coast in Maine Coast Semester
One of the aspects about Chewonki that was a big part of me deciding to come here was the ocean. ...
Facing Farm Chores
When I applied to Chewonki, I remember that the presentation given at my school mentioned every cabin would wake up ...
The Plunge
Throughout the semester, all students have embarked on the adventures of field lab. Field lab consists of going to different ...
A 4 AM Excursion
At the end of September, seven other students and I embarked on a five day sea kayaking trip in the ...
