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Show The Broad Ax September PROJECT APOLLO 1975 became even more aware of how much | need other people and how | can help them. I’ve always wanted to do the dangerous things we encountered, but | was afraid. | did them and am proud of it.” a cipant such are the remarks of a student partiin the Apollo Project, a multi-level outdoor program based at Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky. Designed’to serve Upward Bound students from Regions IV, V and VII, the Apollo Project grew out of a successful ‘outdoor adventure series incorporated into the Murray State University Upward Bound program in 1971. Combining the best of established outdoor education practices with Upward Bound stress-challenge methodology, Project Apollo emerges as a unique educational .... experience for students and staff alike. F The express Purpose of Project Apollo as fe stated in a report sent to the Broad Ax in July by Apollo Director William J. Holt is to, “Provide an intensive stress-challenge outdoor learning experience designed to solve realistic Fe. 3a existing problems and thereby meet the needs gai of Upward Bound students and staff.” These problems Dh have been identified as a lack of opportunity to participate in A) experientially based educational experience, § B) the building of positive self concepts, C) & classes under instructors skilled in outdoor % experiential learning and resourceful enough to implement its transfer to the classroom D) acquisition of outdoor § skills not ordinarily @ available. Operating under immersion in the the premise that total outdoor environment provides students with the opportunity to! learn about themselves and the world at large, Project Apollo takes learning out of the class-: room only to put it back again with fresh enthusiasm. ‘‘By discarding § the tradition of education as a regimented classroom exercise,’ the student produces a more receptive attitude toward himself primarily because of the ‘‘adventure’’ type methodology and being in the actual ‘‘outdoor’’ environment. Stu- | dents return to their classrooms more af A By awakened to learning with a new found Bexjse,. confidence : with. which . academic potential. is Utilizing weekend to achieve their ‘syiye.#* en “ tes ay Geese a and vacation periods (ame of the regualr. academic year, as well as the & summer months, Project Apollo is structured a Ge Hoxom. |
