Proctor Academy’s Mikala Eacrett ’19 works alongside Marianna Shedd during Proctor Academy’s Project Period. Photo: Lindsey Allenby

Each spring, Proctor students and faculty join together for a four-day immersion learning program called Project Period, where small groups explore areas totally unique to a typical classroom education.

This year, faculty offerings spanned an astounding 42 different projects. Students went dog sledding in northern Maine, developed business plans and visited start up companies in Boston, served food at a soup kitchen, learned to make a quilt, fabricated a metal video tower for Proctor’s athletic fields, earned Lifesaving and CPR certification or Hunter and Bow Safety Certification, and studied law at the State House. One group learned to play guitar and even recorded a song in Proctor’s own recording studio!

For other groups, the local community was their focus. Groups volunteered at the Andover Elementary/Middle School and at East Andover Village Preschool and planned and hosted Proctor’s third annual St. Baldrick’s event in the Farrell Field House. Project Period is all about relationships: relationships with each other, with the community, and with the content students are learning.