Curricular Global Learning
From the mountains of Vermont to the Capitol steps, we offer programs focused on politics, sustainability and the environment.
Live (and work) at The Mountain School, located on a 300-acre farm in Vershire, Vermont. As you care for the farm and the environment through daily chores, you’ll come to know the place deeply and understand its natural rhythms. Mountain School classrooms focus on collaboration and experiential learning, with a strong emphasis on getting outside. You’ll take five classes, all at the Honors or AP level, plus an outdoor education course. Forty-five students from around the country live on the farm. You’ll share a house with five-to-12 other students and faculty.
Join the staff of a U.S. senator or representative as a full-time intern and get an insider’s view of life on Capitol Hill. While your daily tasks may start out small, as you prove yourself you can gain access to mentors in the political world, attend hearings, handle correspondence, or even brief aides and elected officials on important issues. For more than 50 years, the Washington Intern Program has helped Exeter seniors see how the legislative branch works, while living and learning in the nation’s capital.
The Experiential Approach
Internships abound for excited learners. We’ve helped place students with the Academy of American Poets, the Conservation Law Foundation, The Paris Review, Stanford University and designer Nicole Miller. We also sponsor short-term trips, led by Exeter faculty, to places such as a Lakota community in South Dakota (for non sibi work), Arizona (hiking and exploration), Hawaii (leadership training), Nashville (for history) and Silicon Valley (to learn about the tech industry).
East Coast
Spring break trips to Woods Hole and Gettysburg
From the Marine Biological Laboratory on Cape Cod to the Civil War battlefields of the mid-Atlantic, groups of Exonians traveled to points along the East Coast for educational adventures.
South Dakota
Considering the weight of history
A visit to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota inspires changes in the classroom.
North America
Thanksgiving trips: Nashville, Alabama and Maui
Nearly three dozen students took advantage of rewarding experiential travel opportunities during the break.
