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Travel programs with the Smithsonian Institution for grades 8–12

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High school youth summit focused on public health, climate change, and equity

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Campus-based climate change program for grades 9–12

Canadian Arctic

Wildlife Conservation & Photography

July 26 — August 6
August 2 — August 13
$7,490 + airfare

Canadian Arctic

Wildlife Conservation & Photography

July 26 — August 6
August 2 — August 13
$7,490 + airfare

The Arctic tundra is one of our planet’s most stunning wildlife habitats: an endless snowscape in the winter that bursts with life when summer arrives, drawing migrating species such as caribou, beluga whales, and—most famously—polar bears. Travel to the Canadian Arctic this summer to experience this habitat and wildlife up close, using an Arctic research facility in Churchill, Manitoba, as your base. Choose either the Photography or Wildlife Conservation track, and delve into your focus area as you set out with a program expert, leaders, and peers to learn more about the unique adaptations that allow species to survive the extreme Arctic conditions, and how they and the communities that live there are coping with a changing climate.

• Head out in all-terrain vehicles across the tundra to track and photograph polar bears
• Take a dog sledding lesson and learn about the importance of this mode of transport
• Kayak with beluga whales and learn about scientists understanding of their “singing”
• Use your camera to capture shooting stars and, if lucky, the Northern Lights