Peregrine Project

Peregrine Project is an umbrella organization that is comprised of three main programs: Peregrine School, Peregrine Center, and Peregrine International.

Peregrine Center will open at a future date. It will be a place for classes and public gatherings related to education, wellness and the arts. Our purpose is to create a space in West Davis where workshops and lectures related to education and wellness, as well as classes in dance, yoga, music or other arts, can be held. Our emphasis is on family education, although classes can be offered for particular age groups. Peregrine Center also will be a space where fundraisers for like-minded organizations or private parties can be held.

Most events occur in the music/studio room at Peregrine School, during the late afternoon and evening hours, or weekends, when school is not in session. When appropriate, outdoor spaces or multiple spaces at Peregrine School can also be used.

Peregrine Center is sponsored by the Peregrine Project, a non-profit corporation.

Peregrine International is a local and international service learning community. This community has several purposes:

*To provide a "classroom without walls" for youth interested in applied and service learning focused on the   solving of real community environmental and/or social justice problems.

*To provide classes which augment classroom based, theoretical learning with hands-on, community based   exploration.

*To provide international service learning opportunities for youth, families, teachers, and other interested   parties.

Peregrine International is a part of the Peregrine Project, a private non-profit corporation.

The first Peregrine International projects have been in collaboration with Grupo Fenix, a Nicaraguan organization working with rural communities to develop and promote renewable resource technologies and sustainable development. In 2009, Peregrine International organized a trip for twenty educators to visit the Nicaraguan community and teach art and science lessons in the elementary school. The visit culminated in what has become the community's first annual Solar Energy Art & Science fair.

This year, Peregrine International worked with Team Blend, a group of physics students from DaVinci High School in Davis. The students designed a pedal-powered blender for Mujeres Solares de Totogalpa, a group of women in rural Nicaragua who are starting a restaurant that uses only renewable energy. The students traveled to Nicaragua this summer to share how to build the pedal-powered blender, teach science lessons in the local elementary school, and participate in other energy and environmentally related projects in the community.