Trevor Delamater, a student at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa, recently participated in the college’s pre-orientation Portage program.
The Portage experience focused on experiential learning in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in northern Minnesota. This year, six student participants canoed and camped in the BWCAW in August. The group also spent a day participating in service work through the local church at Grand Portage.
Portage was led by Matt Gray and Linden Figgie, Northwestern alumni who are on staff of the Coldwater Foundation for Leadership and Community Development, along with Coldwater staffer Kevin Sutton and four upperclassmen students.
The program was created to serve as a resource for incoming students to navigate the transition to college life. Topics discussed by the students ranged from the challenges of leaving home to creating a vision for their college education. Participants also experienced a day of fasting and solitude.
Delamater, a sophomore, is a business administration major at Northwestern College. He is the son of Mark and Margaret Delamater of Lutsen.
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