WHO ARE WE? 🌱 The Sprout Experience is an educational 501c(3) nonprofit organization founded by teachers.

WHAT DO WE DO? 🌱 We offer immersive, life-changing experiences celebrating our planet’s precious life, diverse cultures, and boundless creativity.

OUR MISSION 🌱 is to build a stronger world community by fostering a love of learning, social/emotional health + global citizenship through understanding.

Over the last 10 years, Sprout has created and facilitated dozens of immersive travel, classes and camps. From herpetology in Snake Road, Illinois to songwriting in Cleveland, to leatherback sea turtle research in Trinidad

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TESTIMONIALS

CURRENT AND PAST PROGRAMS

  • Work with sea turtles emerging from the ocean and nesting under the starry night sky. Visit protected areas in the rainforest and Nariva Swamp. Explore Trini culture, music, and food. Snorkel in Pirates Bay and SCUBA dive pristine coral reef ecosystems.

  • Hike through stunning Everglades National Park in true SPROUT fashion, slogging right through swamps, kayak through mangroves, snorkel in the keys and take wildlife drives looking for the impressive but invasive Burmese python!

  • Camp at a research center. Track lions and walk with baboons in the wild. Be immersed in Maasai culture & community. Meals are prepared fresh, and evenings are enjoyed around a roaring campfire under African stars. Visit schools and villages, exchange ideas on culture and conservation, and play a farewell soccer match in the red savanna dust.

  • Work hands-on with reptiles and amphibians. Witness the snakes, salamanders, and frogs migrate between their summer habitat in the swamps and their winter habitat in the rocky bluffs on the other side of the road. We will catch-and-release a variety of species, using the opportunity to learn about them and collect important samples and data for area researchers.

  • This 2-day overnight camp is a fabulous introduction to horses. Students learn the basics of riding and horse care in a fun, encouraging and safe environment.

  • A CROSS-CULTURAL COLLABORATION, THE FIRST OF ITS KIND.

    Diverse people with a unified voice

    Two continents, Four languages, Traditional Maasai call and response, Rock, Pop and Maasai fusion, West African drums

    Recorded in three studios, a Maasai school and villages in the African savanna by musicians ages 2 to 94

    Engineered and produced by Daniel Grigson (Necco Records) Featuring Neccos For Breakfast

  • Work with scientists at the Charles Darwin Research Center, complete a conservation project in Galapagos National Park, hike a volcano, snorkel with penguins and seals, observe rare wildlife, and experience real cultural immersion. 

  • Explore the art of songwriting alongside professional musicians and educators. Learn the basic elements of a song, analyze popular music, and apply writing skills such as figurative language. Work as a class to compose an original song together and create an audio recording of your work.

  • The Sprout Experience teamed up with the International Women’s Air & Space Museum (IWASM) to host a GIRLS ONLY aviation experience! Spend a day exploring the rich history of female pilots and astronauts. Go on a scavenger hunt and see special museum items. Spend time in a flight simulator, and fly in a real plane through the EAA Young Eagles program!

  • Learn how to make pizza in awesome wood-fire ovens. Go "behind the counter" to prepare and cook your own personal pizza! (And then eat it) Then you and your fellow students will host the event: taking the orders, preparing the food, and serving your guests. Invite two guests to enjoy a special meal prepared and served by YOU.

  • Get a taste of camping and learn some of the basics: choosing a site, set up, etiquette & safety, plus classic activities like kayaking, cooking out, hiking, campfires, s'mores, wildlife spotting and the joy of tent-sleeping.

  • SCUBA diving, coral reefs.   Become a certified SCUBA diver, conduct coral reef restoration, donkey sanctuary, Slagbaai National Park.

  • MAKIN' MUSIC - Explore how sounds are made. Play with a Slinky, make tin can telephones, dance to music and make noise with rhythm instruments.

    TELLIN' TALES - Enjoy a book read by Sprout staff and then complete a hands-on craft related to the story.

    SLITHERIN' SNAKES - Sprout teams up with the Herps Alive Foundation, an organization that cares for unwanted reptiles. See lizards, pythons, alligators, turtles and snakes.

    WALKIN' THE WOODS A walk through the woods with an expert naturalist. FIND supplies to make a craft by using a map during our hike!

  • GRADES 6-12

    Original music
    Live performance
    Professional instruction
    Local venues

  • Explore the wildlife is South Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp. Road cruise for reptiles and amphibians, locate endemic species like carnivorous plants and rare ferns.

OUR FOUNDERS, Daniel Grigson & Julie Milkie, both experienced educators, started The Sprout Experience in 2016. They create and personally lead a variety of domestic and international programs available exclusively through Sprout.