Coordinator's Note
by Rachel Landis
Six years of ski patrolling has drawn my awareness to a fairly interesting temporal phenomenon known as the Gravity Storm. On any given day in a patroller's life, the radios will remain silent for hours...until that fateful period of 15 minutes when everything that can happen does---enter the Gravity Storm. These periods of syncronized activity are an incredible reminder of the nature of the work that we do, and inherently its value.
These past two weeks, I have been experiencing the most pleasant of Gravity Storms here at the Environmental Center---acute, closely-spaced reminders of why this Center exists and the immense import of the work that we are doing to empower our student body and cultivate their civic leadership. I have had the opportunity to meet with six new interns and share in their vision for the world that they want to see, but don't know yet how to generate; I have worked with our returning student leaders and been awed by the growth in their leadership capabilities that has come from the coaching adn opportunities they have received at the EC; and I have had the distinct pleasure of interacting with several incredible alums to learn about the creative, value-driven and proactive lives that they are leading as a sequel to the experiences they had here at the Environmental Center.
I invite you all to join in our Gravity Storm of Good Things Happening at the EC and join in any of the student-led projects, programs and events that are arriving hot on the heels of February's arrival.
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