CRMS Tele Team blog post

Alumni Fueling the Fire...

There are CRMS Telemark Team Alumns out there killing it is so many passionate ways. Here a few on the immediate radar:

Luke Lubchenko, along with help from Nick Malik, Sam Stevens, and Dylan Smith, have started Fort Lewis college's first ever Telemark Club. Rumor has it that 80 people showed interest in signing up. Check them out on Facebook: Fort Lewis Pinheads Telemark Club

The CRMS Telemark Team was founded in 1994 as a result of student interest in the sport at the Colorado Rocky Mountain School. It is primarily a freeride team that strives to develop outstanding, beautiful skiers in all aspects of free-ride telemarking.

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Colorado Rocky Mountain School students studying biodiversity and conservation via EcoFlight's Flight Across America

Two Colorado Rocky Mountain School students took part in EcoFlight’s Flight Across America last week. The two students bravely flew to Jackson on a small Cessna, piloted by Bruce Gordon. This program (organized by Jane Pargiter and Krysia Carter-Giez) is designed to involve, and inform, high school age students about issues regarding biodiversity and conservation using flight and ground-based education. The goal is to introduce students to a broad range of perspectives and show them, via flight, how these issues personally impact their lives and the world around them. Jocelyne and Lea studied climate change as it relates to the Mountain Pine Beetle and the effect it is having on lodge pole forests in Colorado and the white bark pine in Wyoming. For more information on the Colorado Rocky Mountain School please go to www.crms.org

"Call of the River" historical kayaking film playing at CRMS on October 30th

Join other whitewater enthusiasts for an evening honoring the history of
kayaking. Filmmaker Kent Ford's "Call of the River" will be shown at the
Colorado Rocky Mountain School Barn at 7 p.m. Friday, October 30th. Tickets
available at the door, $10 for adults and $5 for students aged twelve and
under. All proceeds benefit CRMS active curriculum scholarships.

For more information please contact Lisa Raleigh (lraleigh@crms.org //
963-2562)

Colorado Rocky Mountain School Awarded Environmental Grant by Captain Planet Foundation

Carbondale, CO—October 6, 2009 – The Captain Planet Foundation, an international eco-foundation for youth based on the successful Captain Planet cartoon, is proud to announce that Colorado Rocky Mountain School has recently been awarded an educational grant of $2,500. These funds will be used towards the Colorado Rocky Mountain School Organic Garden Learning Center project. “We are thrilled to present this award to Colorado Rocky Mountain School,” says Taryn Murphy, Programs Director. “We receive thousands of submissions each year, and therefore have to be very selective to whom we award funding. We feel that this project deserves exploration and attention and wish Colorado Rocky Mountain School the best of luck. It is our hope that our combined efforts will educate, empower, involve and invest today’s youth to cultivate a better tomorrow.”

The Colorado Rocky Mountain School Organic Garden Learning Center is a great asset to not only the school and our students, but the community as well. CRMS is committed to teaching our students and other community members how to grow and harvest organic foods in a sustainable, and energy and water efficient manner. We are thrilled that a national foundation is partnering with us on this project, “ says Linda Halloran, Director of the CRMS Organic Garden Learning Center.

The CRMS Organic Garden Learning Center expansion project will allow the school to double the
amount of food produced to 40% of the produce consumed on campus (30,000 pounds annually),
while decreasing the school’s carbon footprint. For more information go to www.crms.org

Colorado Rocky Mountain School Student-Initiated Clubs Raise Money For Worldwide Causes

Even with our students' robust academic and active schedules, we encourage them to participate in clubs of their choice. These clubs are student organized and run, affording more freedom in the activities offered and in opportunities for leadership. Students may get as involved in the clubs as they'd like and, of course, extra-curricular activities look good on college applications.

CRMS is currently the home of three global philanthropies including Peace Jam, Operation Smile, and Face Aids. Peace Jam and Operation Smile are currently working together in order to sponsor children all around the world for cleft-palate operations. The Operation Smile club started in January of 2009, and the CRMS community has already made it possible for three children to receive the cleft-palate surgery through different fund-raising events.

Another group of CRMS students recently started a Face Aids chapter supporting Aids research and funding throughout Rwanda and raised over $500 at their first fund-raising endeavor this past week. They are also reaching out to the other high schools in the area encouraging them to get involved.

This is just one way CRMS prepares our students for an extraordinary life. www.crms.org

For more information contact lraleigh@crms.org

Students at Carbondale school head for the hills, cliffs and canyons

CARBONDALE, Colorado — Old pictures and film clips from the early days at Colorado Rocky Mountain School in the 1950s and '60s show students piled onto the back of flatbed trucks, or hiking from campus through town with large backpacks headed into the backcountry.

The independent, college preparatory school isn't a lot different in that respect from when CRMS founders John and Anne Holden would send students packing for their fall outdoor trips — a key aspect of the outdoor education-focused learning experience the school offers.

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CRMS and RFHS join forces in competition, celebration, and philanthropy

Thursday, October 8^th, at 4pm a league soccer game will be held between Colorado Rocky Mountain School and Roaring Fork High School at the CRMS campus. Over the years, CRMS and RFHS have developed a healthy spirit of competitive rivalry and friendship, as many of these players will come together in the spring to play on one combined club team. And quite often the CRMS vs. RFHS games are some of the best, and most intense, league games of the season.

This fall, the CRMS and RFHS communities were looking to strengthen inter-team ties as well as further unite the Carbondale community. For the past month, a group of students and teachers from both schools have been working together to organize this game as a community-wide event.

CRMS and RFHS will be hosting a barbecue during the game, along with a bake sale offered by a student club, Operation Smile, which raises money for child cleft palate surgeries in developing countries. RFHS's student-led club that focuses on cultural integration within the community is working on the other end to raise student interest in the event. In addition, CRMS will debut its newest student club, Face Aids, selling pins to raise money for this national organization that benefits Aids victims in Rwanda.

Both CRMS and RFHS are hoping to reach out to the families, fans, and students of both schools, creating community connections and friendships. We hope that this is just the first of many joint community events to come throughout the school year.