ARC is the same age as some our oldest high school participants. We’ve now been offering leadership, wilderness, and literacy instruction for 17 years! This week, we’re excited to announce that we’ve launched a new website, which captures our participants’ experiences throughout these last two decades and offers several new features. If you visit adventureriskchallenge.org, you can find student writing from every year, including our first Tahoe summer course in 2004. You can read academic research about ARC’s unique mix of English literacy and outdoor adventure. And, if you know a young person who would benefit from participating in our programs, you can now refer that person to ARC through our website.
– Explore la página web de ARC en Español – Every page on the new site is fully translated, so that Spanish-speaking parents and community members have the same experience with our site as English-speaking visitors. We understand that, for many of our participants’ parents, sending their child away for a month-long experience in the Sierra Nevada can feel daunting. We want to make sure that all information about ARC is as accessible as possible and, from parents’ first glimpse of the program online, that we’re speaking a common language.
– Access our New & Improved Blog – ARC’s blog is a place to read updates about our work and our students. The blog offers student writing from our summer courses, as well as profiles of graduates. Recent posts include ARC Program Coordinator Jesus Alejandre’s interview with his mom for Mother’s Day, a profile of ARC summer graduate Alexis Angulo, who is graduating from Dartmouth this summer, and a note from ARC’s Program Director Mel Hoffman, who has worked for ARC for over 10 years.
– Visit our New Alumni Page – We are excited to have an alumni page devoted to over 300 summer graduates and 2,500 academic year participants since 2004. Also included on this page is a graphic showing some of the colleges and universities where our graduates have gone on to receive diplomas, including UC Merced, Fresno State, Sierra Nevada University, Stanford, Harvard, and more.
ARC’s new website was designed by Ashley Cortes, a Fresno-based graphic designer and owner of Agape Creative Studios. We were grateful to have the opportunity to work with a talented designer in our Central Valley community. Agape Creative Studios is a production studio owned and operated by artists and creatives. They offer website design and development, video production and strategic social media engagement services. Ashley said, “It was great to work with Adventure Risk Challenge on their new website. We appreciate who they are as an organization and what they are doing in the community.” Thank you, Ashley, for collaborating with us through the process!
We also would like to send a thank you to Colin Carpenter, who has been ARC’s web guru since first working with us as an instructor in 2006. Colin created ARC’s logo, does much of our graphic design, and built previous iterations of our website from the ground up.