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2011 EVENT VENDORS
The following vendors will be on-site at the College Fair event.
Wilderness Awareness School Wilderness Awareness School is a national not-for-profit environmental education organization established in 1983 and based in Duvall, Washington. We are dedicated to caring for the earth and our children by fostering understanding and appreciation of nature, community and self. Our dynamic wilderness education courses combine ancient and modern ecological wisdom, and empower people of all ages to become stewards, mentors and leaders. Over the past two decades, Wilderness Awareness School has grown from a small group of visionary individuals to a leading national organization impacting the course of nature education, and inspiring many schools and individuals across the country and the world to share our teachings and curriculum. Our College age program, The Anake Outdoor School is a 9-month wilderness course that provides in-depth training in a powerful set of nature awareness and wilderness survival skills. College credit available, please see website for details!
Lee Binz, The HomeScholar helps parents homeschool high school and is a leading internet home school resource helping parents homeschool to college. Lee and her husband Matt homeschooled their two boys, Kevin and Alex, from elementary through High School. Upon their graduation, both boys received four-year, full tuition scholarships from their first choice university. This enables Lee to pursue her dream job - encouraging parents to homeschool through high school. Lee is an expert in how to craft a winning homeschool transcript. She has an award-winning Christian homeschool blog and one of the most popular homeschool newsletters available. Lee is a dynamic speaker at homeschool conventions as well as homeschooling support groups. Check out her free minicourse on homeschool grades and credits and her training webinar on how to create amazing homeschool records that will open doors! You can find Lee online at www.TheHomeScholar.com or email her Lee@TheHomeScholar.com.
The HomeScholar
www.TheHomeScholar.com
Lee Binz, The Home Scholar, Lee@TheHomeScholar.com
www.wildernessawareness.org
EXPLORATIONS ACADEMY ONLINE
explorationsacademyonline.org
David Marshak, EAO Coordinator
david.marshak@gmail.com, 360-676-1635
1807 McKenzie Avenue, Bellingham, WA 98225
EXPLORATIONS ACADEMY Online offers a web-based personalized high school program that:
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Builds on and enriches the experience of the learner, incluidng adventure, creativity and arts, community involvement, athletics and mind/body physical disciplines, and practical skills
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Gives each learner a significant role in constructing her/his own learning
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Combines academic excellence, interdisciplinary studies, and experiential education
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Provides each learner with a personal Learning Coach, who guides, assists, and assesses the learner's education
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Engages the learner in a high school program of studies that addresses real-world issues - personal, local, national, and global - while allowing him/her to earn a high school diploma that meets the requirements of the state of Washington.
Tutor Doctor provides affordable one-on-one in home tutoring and academic coaching. We create an individualized educational plan for each student and match tutors based on the student's academic needs and personality.
Time to Thrive Tutoring (Tutor Doctor)
www.whatcomcountytutors.com
Donald Gongaware
Educational Consultant and Owner
dgongaware@tutordoctor.com, 360-778-3250
Tutor Doctor can provide support to home schooled, public, and private schooled students. We provide individual or small group tutoring. We can go back and rebuild missing educational building blocks. We also provide academic coaching to help farther an excelling students' progress. Our tutors provide individualized support which helps students build confidence and improve grades.
At Tutor Doctor we recognize that making a difference in a student's academic performance involves having an impact on not only their studies, but also the student's confidence, organizational/study skills, and dreams. We want to make a lasting difference in our students' lives.
We provide tutoring or academic coaching in all school subjects, test preparation support for college entrance examinations, and foreign language support.
Seattle SAT Coaching
www.seattleSATcoaching.com
Brandon Hendrickson
seattleSATcoaching@gmail.com
I don't teach tricks; I build talent. I train people to read, write, and reason more clearly. When you tap the insights of cognitive science and expertise studies, you'll master the SAT even as you improve your intellectual skills.
Test-prep done well is college-prep: you'll slice through convoluted text, weave through complex math problems, and stay focused the entire time.
The work is intense, but it's also fun! I couldn’t work in this field if I weren’t thrilled to teach the joys of close reading, the beautiful basics of math, and the awesome sociology of grammar. I delight in helping students pick apart words, dissect formulas, and diagram sentences. The life of the mind is wonderful, and it’s my pleasure to help students enter it.
Carpe Diem Education
www.carpediemeducation.org
Drew Edwards, Program Director
drew@carpediemeducation.org
Carpe Diem International Education runs
international academic programs that work with youth in an educational
capacity to get them both out of the country and out of their comfort
zones. We firmly believe that the greatest treasure in every being is
their own self-reliance: the knowledge that "every student already has
everything they could ever need." Throughout the course of our
semesters, we focus much energy on helping students learn just what it
means to take ownership of their lives. Our semester programs have been running
internationally since 1998 when we first launched a semester in Central
America. Since then our programs have grown to include East Africa,
Southeast Asia, Australia & the South Pacific, India, and South
America. Our programs offer students an educational alternative to the
classroom environment by making learning real and active. We fold
volunteering, authentic cultural experience, travel, adventure, and
language study and homestays (where appropriate) into educationally and
safely structured programs.
Barefoot Books Barefoot Books, a small independent publisher of children's books, celebrates the integration of art with story. From their richly illustrated books, you
and your students will discover, imagine, create, connect, and give
back. Barefoot Books are all about exploring other cultures, our planet,
and ourselves. Our books are about learning more about nature,
languages, and people from countries we dream of visiting. They're about
making time for make-believe and letting imaginations run wild and
free. Most of all, Barefoot Books are about using the power of stories
to nourish the creative spark in everyone and strengthen connections
with family, the global community and with the earth. Barefoot Books
titles include folklore from every continent, classic Western World
tales from the age of the Greeks to Shakespeare, stories that support
character development and that inform the reader, and books that inspire
young children to read on their own.
www.barefootbooksnana.com
Vicki Stearns, The Barefoot Books NANA, barefootbooksnana@comcast.net
425-941-5708
2011 DISPLAY VENDORS
Literature will be available at the college fair from the following vendors:
ANDEO International Homestays
www.andeo.org
Andrea Bailey, Program Manager, andrea@andeo.org
503-274-1776, 800-274-6007 
ANDEO (www.andeo.org) is a Northwest-based non-profit organizations specializing in educational homestay programs since 1981. For college-age students, we offer flexible Gap programs abroad that can be customized to fit each individual student’s goals and interests – and their schedules and budgets, too. For example, students can take college-level classes in Indigenous Cultures or Literature in Peru, join art workshops in Spain, or get involved with an environmental conservation project in Costa Rica. All programs include a homestay with a local host family, which is a great way to gain authentic insights into the everyday life and culture. Programs can last from four weeks to several months and are available year-round. ANDEO also offers summer programs for younger students as well as hosting opportunities for families in the Pacific Northwest.
Mandarin Experts
www.mandarinexperts.com
Wendy Tan, mandarinexperts@yahoo.com
206-226-2627
Mandarin Experts offers programs for K-12 and college students. The Classes are kept small to increase each individual student's learning experience. Our skilled teachers engage students to get them excited and speaking, reading and writing Mandarin Chinese from the very first day! We also offer custom private lessons tailored to each individual student's language goals.
| Studio East Training for the Performing Arts/ StoryBook Theater www.studio-east.org Laura Shepherd, Education Director laurashepherd@studio-east.org, 425-820-1800 x 108 11730 118th Ave. NE, Ste 100, Kirkland, WA 98034 |
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