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When the Mountain is Your Lab
Mountain Campus enrollment open now! At the BBA Mountain Campus, learning moves beyond classroom and into the surrounding forests, fields, and community. These immersive, place-based courses challenge students to think deeply, work collaboratively, and engage directly with the natural world.
Through hiking, field research, storytelling, and hands-on projects, students explore subjects ranging from environmental chemistry and conservation biology to outdoor leadership and Vermont history. Classes blend vigorous academics with real-world experiences, using the landscape itself as a living laboratory and classroom.
Mountain Campus courses fulfill Burr and Burton’s integrative learning graduation requirement and offer students the opportunity to earn credits in English, science, physical education, and electives—while building leadership, curiosity, and a deeper connection to place.
Courses offered for 2026–27 include--all courses are offered at the Honors or CP level
• Literature, Leadership, and Learning in the Outdoors (English + PE)
• Environmental Chemistry and Literature: Investigating Our Impact (Chemistry and English)
• Conservation Biology and Environmental Literacy (Biology + English or Social Studies)
• Vermont: A Study of Place (PE + Elective)
Interested in learning more? Ask your school counselor or catch up with Mountain Campus teachers Jon Hammond, Scott Clausen, Becca Allen, or Jill Perry-Balzano.
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