We're on Spring Break until Monday morning, when Project Period begins. In the meantime, we're recycling a Chuck's Corner that appeared at the end of Project Period last year.

The projects that are finishing up today reflect the diverse passions of the faculty who are sponsoring them. Over the next few days, photos will pour in from off-campus projects, but in the meantime, we'll consider those offered closer to home. One group is creating a video that captures the diversity and excitement of Project Period. They are also cooking and eating well. Here, girls are making pasta from scratch for sweet potato raviolis (served with filet mignon, broiled scallops, baked asparagus and baguettes).

One project takes the prize for thematic humor. Project Camp Bluewater spent the week mimicking summer camp life, with campfires, archery, swimming (at an indoor pool,) and plenty of arts & crafts. Campers assigned names to their "cabins"!

I confess that I find the maple sugaring project to be most photogenic. Despite Friday's snow, the weather has been ideal for the sap run. This was Thursday:

Inside a steamy sugarhouse, Chubbs splits kindling.

If we're going to make sugar, we might as well enjoy some M&Ms.

Outside, as the snow winds down, Tom Eslick enjoys a Green Mountain coffee fresh from Jake's Market.

Across the street at Andover Elementary and Middle School, Proctor students are serving as teachers' assistants. At the end of a frantic recess period, these kids finish a game of "chase Malcolm."