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When 20 Eastern Mennonite High School (EMHS) students set out on a 26-day road trip to explore food production, land and water issues across the United States this summer, they were accompanied by five Eastern Mennonite University alumni.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lee Good \u201992, MA \u201915 (right) discusses holistic farming with a host in Quinter, Kansas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Discovery trips, which take place every other summer and are open to rising juniors and seniors and recent graduates, give students \u201creal life problems, in context,\u201d said leader and Eastern Mennonite School (EMS) science teacher <\/span>Lee Good \u201992, MA \u201915 (education)<\/b>. \u201cThey contextualize the challenges.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Also on staff for the excursion was Lee\u2019s son, chef <\/span>Kyle Good \u201919<\/b>. <\/span>Silas Driver \u201919<\/b>, who will graduate from EMU\u2019s nursing program in December, provided medical support. EMS director of advancement <\/span>Andrea Schrock Wenger \u201986<\/b>\u00a0 and teacher Kendal Bauman MA \u201911<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0also accompanied the group.<\/span><\/p>\n

With stops in Kansas, Arizona, California, Oregon, Montana, Ohio and points between, the group learned about biotechnology, urban gardening and family farming, sustainable architecture, native peoples and geothermal energy. On one leg, they visited the ice field headwaters of the Colorado River, which they then followed through the arid Southwest to Las Vegas and Yuma, Arizona.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Trip leader Lee Good engages border control police in June, when the Discovery 2019 group learned about immigration issues from Border Angels in San Diego.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The students\u2019 takeaways are \u201cvaried, rich and deep,\u201d Good said, as the trip brings myriad issues into focus. The group learned that without immigrants to harvest, crops would rot in the field. When a student asked a farmer, \u201cWhat \u00a0do you think of global warming?\u201d he replied that dealing with its repercussions is \u201cmy everyday existence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was very eye-opening,\u201d Good said. \u201cThe issues aren\u2019t something abstract; this is food and livelihood.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Discovery trip program was launched 20 years ago by biology teacher <\/span>Myron Blosser \u201983, MA \u201998 (education)<\/b>, who led the trips until 2013. Since then it has been led by Good, who had previously served as trip support staff in 2011 and 2013. Blosser now directs the Governor\u2019s STEM Academy at Harrisonburg High School.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This year, for his second time, Kyle Good was head cook. He also participated in the trip in 2013 as a student and in 2011 \u2013 to Alaska \u2013 when he was a middle schooler.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Silas Driver and Kyle Good in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Driver, too, participated as a student in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe trip reminded me of EMU cross-cultural study,\u201d said Schrock Wenger. \u201cStudents were learning how to learn. They read and prepared questions before stops, listened well, and reflected as a group along the way. I came back filled with hope for how the next generation will engage the complex problems of our times.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t really care about a place until you\u2019ve seen it,\u201d Lee Good said. \u201cNow students have a much greater capacity to identify with and understand these complex issues, since they\u2019ve been there. They now know who their neighbor is.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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