A Foundation. A Metaphor. A 10-Day Adventure Challenge.

Every Dynamy student’s path begins with a little adventure. Fun team building games, high and low ropes course elements, out into the woods, out over the water, up into the trees, up a mountainside. Dynamy firmly believes there is no better start to create your own life with confidence than by taking a chance on a challenging, different and fun journey.

The Adventure Challenge is the first thing students accomplish before moving in and starting their internships. Students take on a week of backpacking, hiking, canoeing and camping in the backcountry woods of Maine. For the hike and backpacking, Dynamy utilizes the sites and services of the University of Maine 4-H Program at Bryant Pond. They’re professionally trained wilderness guides that take our Dynamy groups out into the woods. Finally, the rest of the year students will engage in the continuation of team building activities through games and events taking place during Monday Programming and other community gatherings.

You Can Do It!

Many future students may be thinking, “yikes, I don’t know about this!” But, it’s worth it. Over the past decade, 85% of Dynamy graduates have rated the adventure challenges as highly as possible. Students report it helped them get rid of distractions and focus on what truly matters. In fact, it showed them that they could do more than they thought, which brought them together as a group. As a result, students quickly formed meaningful friendships.

Students don’t have to be a top athlete or nature lover to get the most out of the adventure challenge or other activities throughout the year. More than 5 decades of students of all abilities have not only completed these experiences, but have thrived. To be successful you just have to be willing to try, and to have a positive attitude. The experience of doing something active, out-of-the-ordinary, and a bit inspirational will do the rest.

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The adventure challenge activities give a firm foundation for each student to their hands-on, real world year of learning. At the end of the trip to Maine, most students feel proud, confident, and enthusiastic about tackling the other experiences, like internships and apartment life, which make up the remainder of the year. And as they work with their advisor throughout the year, they find that the adventure challenge experience becomes a metaphor for approaching their own life.

The adventure challenge activities give a firm foundation for each student to their hands-on, real world year of learning. At the end of the trip to Maine, most students feel proud, confident, and enthusiastic about tackling the other experiences, like internships and apartment life, which make up the remainder of the year. And as they work with their advisor throughout the year, they find that the adventure challenge experience becomes a metaphor for approaching their own life.