Putney Student Travel

For 62 years, Putney Student Travel has offered students completing Grades 6-12 the opportunity and insight to shape their world through travel, unique cultural engagement, friendship, and fun.

We believe that an essential component of every young person’s education is passionate engagement with the world in the company of carefully selected peers, an experience that goes far beyond looking out the window of a tour bus.
“What makes the difference between people who will set a fire and those who run towards the fire to help? How much of who we are is a function of the other people in our lives and what does this mean about the concept of human individuality—are we all unique snowflakes or just variations on a theme?”Excel at Amherst College staff member Carter Carter introduces the Psychology seminars he will be teaching on our Pre-College Enrichment program this summer for the blog. Take a look!http://goputney.com/2013/05/08/pre-college-enrichment-psychology-course/

“What makes the difference between people who will set a fire and those who run towards the fire to help? How much of who we are is a function of the other people in our lives and what does this mean about the concept of human individuality—are we all unique snowflakes or just variations on a theme?”

Excel at Amherst College staff member Carter Carter introduces the Psychology seminars he will be teaching on our Pre-College Enrichment program this summer for the blog. Take a look!

http://goputney.com/2013/05/08/pre-college-enrichment-psychology-course/

“Go somewhere. It matters less where you go than that you go. Go knowing that your interaction with local people will be at the heart of your experience. Treat those relationships with extra respect and warmth. Last but not least: energy is key.”Veteran India leader Brian Orland shares his advice for future Putney students. For a full article featuring advice from past leaders and students, go to http://goputney.com/2013/05/06/advice-for-teens-traveling-abroad-on-a-summer-program/

“Go somewhere. It matters less where you go than that you go. Go knowing that your interaction with local people will be at the heart of your experience. Treat those relationships with extra respect and warmth. Last but not least: energy is key.”

Veteran India leader Brian Orland shares his advice for future Putney students. For a full article featuring advice from past leaders and students, go to 

http://goputney.com/2013/05/06/advice-for-teens-traveling-abroad-on-a-summer-program/

Summer becomes the season for college prep

As getting into college becomes ever more competitive, more students are spending the summers creating fodder for college applications.

We were featured on NPR’s Marketplace this morning

The memory of sharing jokes and bringing smiles to each other’s faces has now become a snapshot in my mental scrapbook. I know now I can be in a totally unfamiliar place with unfamiliar people and have the ability to thrive.

—Excerpt from a college essay about teaching in Africa on our high school summer program in Ghana. She’s choosing between Union and Bates College!

“If you treat everyone around you with dignity and respect and you yourself have curiosity, patience, humility, and a willingness to simply observe, then no matter the language barrier a connection can be made, trust gained, and friendship earned.”Congratulations to Katherine, a senior at The Hotchkiss School who traveled on our summer community service program in India! She wrote her college essay about the experience and was accepted to Georgetown University. 

“If you treat everyone around you with dignity and respect and you yourself have curiosity, patience, humility, and a willingness to simply observe, then no matter the language barrier a connection can be made, trust gained, and friendship earned.”

Congratulations to Katherine, a senior at The Hotchkiss School who traveled on our summer community service program in India! She wrote her college essay about the experience and was accepted to Georgetown University. 

There were no TV shows to watch, no expensive electronics to worry about ruining. For those of us who grew up in first world countries, there was no reminder of our lives back home in the heavy, humid, tropical air or the dirty, slimy mud all over us and our clothes. It was glorious. We were completely filthy, soaking wet, and having the time of our lives.

—Lea, a senior at Chase Collegiate School in West Hartford, Connecticut, traveled on two of our summer programs abroad. She spent the summer of 2008 on our program in Costa Rica for middle school students and 2012 on oursummer theatre program in Britain. This is an excerpt of a college essay she recently shared with us from her summer volunteering in Costa Rica.

Spring is here! The brave ladies of Putney Student Travel break in the pond at the Barn.