Summer Boarding School on Maui

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Summer Boarding School on Maui
Set up in 2005, Maui Preparatory Academy is an private college preparatory school for day pupils in preschool through 8th grade, and both day and boarding pupils for high school. Maui Prep’s plantation-style campus is found amongst earlier pineapple fields and majestic Norfolk pines roughly ten miles north of Lahaina. In the outstanding setting of mountains and sea, tropical rainforests, golden beaches, and ocean reefs, Maui Prep presents its students with an awe-inspiringly special and gratifying situation for scholarship. Moved by Aloha, Maui Prep supports scholastic quality, artistic expression, and athletic prowes. Maui Prep challenges its students to think critically, to give of themselves generously, to work in partnership honestly and selflessly, and to commit to improving the the world we live in.

The intent of Maui Prep’s Summer Academy is to tender students profound education options while receiving a opening to come into contact with and benefit from all that the amazing isle of Maui can offer. Summer Academy participants get to work with top tutors who are authorities in their fields and additionally have significant experience working with teenagers and young adults. All Summer Academy courses are experiential, in that all individuals actively have interaction in the subjects of their given programs. All Summer Academy boarding individuals reside together at the Maui Prep residential facility. The housing facility is located under 3 miles and around a 7-minute drive from Maui Prep’s school campus. It is located with handy access to public transportation, parks, beaches, and shopping. The facility is ideal for student apartment-style living.

Maui Prep Summer Academy is divided into two three-week periods. Many participants in each session opt for one topic major (1.0 credit) and two subject minors (0.5 credits each). With the exception of SCUBA, all majors take place in the morning period of every day, Monday through Saturday. All minors take place in the afternoon period, with some taking place on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and others taking place Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

Maui Prep produces a residential home environment that cultivates the cognitive and emotional maturity of our pupils. Our first class tutors and residential advisors care for for pupils as their own and direct their orientation and integration into Maui Prep community life. Individuals in the Maui Prep Summer Academy rapidly become a part of our ‘ohana (household) and foster profound life-long friendships through the courses, adventures, and fun dormitory team-building activities.

Our tutors and residential advisors are on hand continually to offer pupils with supervision and support, either intellectual or personal. Our residential lodgings make certain proper and fitting separation of male and female pupils. Our classrooms, meeting, and dining facilities are coeducational.

Each one of our residential apartments come outfitted with its own bathroom, cooking area, and private balcony. The property is secured by perimeter fencing with controlled gate admittance. The facility additionally has controlled admittance to a private beach.

Maui Prep provides all meals through the Summer Academy term. Breakfast is offered at the boarding accommodation. Lunch is provided on the school campus Monday through Saturday. Dinner is supplied each night and Sunday brunch at the residnetial site.

For the duration of orientation and on a nightly basis the Resident Assistants will present icebreaker and bonding activities to develop cooperative spirit. Sunday is put aside as a unique adventure day. Many Summer Academy pupils can get up later, have brunch, and then pick from a variety of various excursions throughout the island of Maui. Sunday adventures may incorporate road trips to Hana, to the pinnacle of Haleakala, to an assortment of surfing or snorkeling spots, to a hiking trail or two, or to a mall, etc.