Spring at Sage continuously gives students opportunities to bond with their peers while further investigating their interests outside of the classroom, and this year will be no exception as students depart on 10 domestic and international trips and attend 16 seminars on and off campus.

“It isn’t at every high school that students get to spend the week before summer either going to amazing places, trying new things or learning about others all while having a good time” sophomore co-chair Miles Wilson said.

This upcoming spring, students will travel all over the world including China, Spain, New Zealand and Alaska. Favorite seminars such as Active OC, Poetic Surfing and Exploring the Paranormal return, while new seminars like EPIC Superfan and Smells Like Teen Spirit debut. The full list is available on Sage Hill’s website.

Students already are thinking about what they want to do, enthusiastic about the numerous options.

“I’m excited about the Spain trip because I’ve been taking Spanish at Sage since my freshman year and I’ve always wanted to go to Spain,” Senior Eliana Theologides Rodriguez said.

Through Spring at Sage, she will be able to use all the the Spanish she learned in the past four years, she said.

Trips are also pursued to learn more about a culture or place they normally would not have the opportunity to visit.

“The trip to New Zealand sounded interesting to me. My cousins went there over the summer and said that everything about it was amazing,” said sophomore Rachel Bryant.

Drew Ishii, the Spring at Sage coordinator and math teacher, has been planning for this year since before the trips last year and is “pleased to be offering seminars and trips that have a broad appeal.”

Travel applications were already due on Oct. 5, and applicants will hear back upon review. However, seminar sign-ups have not yet opened for students and will on Oct. 22. 

“Our trips this year span the globe and range from a short trip to learn about immigrants during the California gold rush*,” Ishii continued, “ to as far away as central Europe, where the hills will be alive with the sound of Sage Hill students on the Sound of Music tour.”

*The above mentioned California gold rush trip has been cancelled.