Twelfth Grade Travel

Marine Biology Trip to Kino Bay, Mexico

The grade twelve zoology block includes a venture into Sonora, Mexico, for a week-long immersion at the Prescott College field station on the Gulf of California.  Here, students learn from ecologists, biologists, environmentalists and others involved in studying the marine life and coastal ecosystems of the area. Students also visit the nearby indigenous Comcaac Seri community to learn from and understand their relationship to the ecosystem within a broader historical and cultural context.

World History Trip to Europe

A Tara education culminates in a month-long trip to Austria and England. In Vienna, London, Stratford, Somerset/Wiltshire, and Cornwall, seniors get a chance to experience firsthand the history, art, music and architecture they’ve studied. As part of a culturally rich and varied itinerary, the group, led by Tara directors, stays in historic inns and homes, enjoys theatre, concerts and opera, and visits museums, abbeys, flea markets and even Merlin’s cave.

The Europe trip takes many aspects of the Tara curriculum and translates them into life, day by day, minute by minute. It connects the students with the ancient past and the not-so-ancient past and in so doing, works to prepare them for their future. Some alchemy occurs that makes this trip even more than the sum of its worthy parts. We are not a group of tourists; we are a group of teachers and students on an academic, cultural and spiritual journey. The result is learning and transformation, subtle yet powerful, and one of the final “destinations” of the four-year Tara experience.