BY KAITLYN CAMILLERI
High schoolers experience a different kind of summer school at Central Michigan University's Beaver Island Biological Station.
The students live and attend class on the Island for three weeks, their last day was Friday. Everyday the students are out in the field for four to five hours investigating problems in our ecosystems.
The biology one-hundred class allows students to experience what a college student in biology does. It also allows students to create relationships with others in their field.
Dan Benjamin is the instructor for the BIO-100 class on Beaver Island.
"Students come together, they bond, they become almost family. It's like a huge extension of my family each year, and when they leave someone of them are really kind of emotional about the departure."
Benjamin said most of the students attend CMU afterwards. He said the students "are passionate about the environment and go on to become great performers in their fields."
For more information on the program contact John Gordon at 989-774-4400