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  • Working together with other Gloucester High School Project Adventure and Project Adventure Japan members to keep a platform balanced during activities are Miranda Schneider, in green, Takashi Monden, in red, and Sabrina Thompson, seated, at right. Allegra Boverman

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  • Tomo Seki, far right, of Project Adventure Japan, and Miranda Schneider, lower left, work to keep a platform balanced during activities with the Gloucester High School Project Adventure group at the school on Wednesday. Allegra Boverman

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  • Leaning back to others can catch him from falling in a spotting practice, is Yew Cheong, of Project Adventure Japan. Around him are Project Adventure and Project Adventure Japan participants who were meeting and doing activities together at Gloucester High School on Wednesday. From left are: Suzume Sugimura, Miranda Schneider, behind her is Takashi Monden, Dylan Spellman, Tetsu Takano and Tom Waldron. Allegra Boverman

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  • Project Adventure of Gloucester High School and Project Adventure of Japan convened at the high school on Wednesday for activities. In a “tension traverse” exercise, Andy Shogo, center, tries to carefully make his way on a low hanging rope as others stand ready to catch him if he were to fall. Around him are, from left, Sabrina Thompson, Miranda Schneider, Dylan Spellman, Kayla Collibee and Jaclyn Canillas. Allegra Boverman

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February 10, 2012

Project Adventure exchange: Japan instructors return Gloucester High teacher's visit

By Steven Fletcher Staff Writer

Last year, a Gloucester High teacher and one of the minds behind the Project Adventure movement led adventure-based counseling with students and teachers in post-tsunami Japan.

On Wednesday, a group of those Project Adventure instructors from Japan visited Jim Schoel's classroom at the high school's Worstrel Center on the Annisquam River to meet his students.

"I've been talking with students about my experience, and I thought it might be a good idea for them to come to Gloucester and meet my students," Schoel said.

The teachers from Japan met Schoel's students at the outdoor education classroom and saw what they've done with the center, and walked the ropes course. They ate dinner with students and residents, with the dinner crafted and presented by the high school's culinary arts program.

Schoel went to Japan to do adventure-based counseling with students and teachers in the Japanese Project Adventure program who were affected by last year's tsunami.

Steven Fletcher may be contacted at 1-978-283-7000 x3455, or sfletcher@gloucestertimes.com. Follow him on Twitter at @stevengdt.

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