A.E.S.O.P. (Annual Entering Students Outdoor Program)

05/08/2019

Hey Leaders!
Next Monday (5/13), we will be having a Tent Check Pizza Party at 5:00pm. All the AESOP tents need to be set up and checked so that no trip gets a broken tent this fall! Come hang out, meet the other leaders, set up some tents, and eat pizza!

09/11/2016

Communications did it right... Checkout some of these awesome photos taken by Phyllis Graber Jensen and Josh Kuckens on both our Farm trips (Winter Hill and Nezinscot) , one of our Lewiston Service Trips, our Mountain Biking trip and our amphibious Mooselookmeguntic trips!

"The AESOP Adventure on Exposure..."

http://picturestories.bates.edu/aesop-adventure?utm_source=Bates+Updates&utm_campaign=586c1d77c7-BATES_NEWS_MONTHLY_UPDATE&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_682d3e3810-586c1d77c7-263410677

To make connections, you kinda have to make some moves. In that spirit, as Orientation for the Class of 2020 hit its midway point last week, Bates’ newest students headed out from campus for their outdoor trips, known as the Annual Entering Student Outdoor Program, or AESOP.

07/22/2016

AESOP trip placements are OUT to our incoming first-year students and we want to celebrate on every mountain top, beach, river, lake, farm, surf board, etc.. AND WE WILL! One step closer to AESOP 2016!! 🎉🎉💥💥 These mountains will be filled with bobkittens in a few short weeks!

06/26/2016

Today is the last day for incoming first years to sign up for trips! The choosing is tough with 54 great trips!! Maybe a trip to Pemi to hike the bonds?! It was beautiful this morning at sunrise!

06/22/2016

We've started placing students for the Class of 2020 on trips and are super excited for the next batch of bobkittens to adventure in the Maine outdoors!

06/17/2016

The 2016 Head Coordinators are reunited for the first time since August and ready for a great summer of plannin' trips for the Class of 2020!!

04/28/2016

http://picturestories.bates.edu/all-fired-up?_ga=1.88115038.410604763.1447617468

Check out this awesome piece on two of our very own former (but not really former because AESOP is forever) coordinators, Sasha Lennon and Natalie R Silver's work in anticipation of their senior art exhibitions!

Sasha Lennon and Natalie Silver admire each other’s honesty and self-confidence. They value each other’s advice. All told, they enjoy one of the great Bates friendships. “It’s almost like we’re dating — we’re not dating,” laughs Silver, of Bennington, Vt., “but I think that we really match each othe…

12/02/2015

https://quad.bates.edu/announcement/aesop-leader-info-session-for-students-going-abroad-next-semester/?utm_source=Bates_Today&utm_campaign=2015-12-02&utm_medium=email&utm_content=announcement&utm_term=aesop-leader-info-session-for-students-going-abroad-next-semester -nav

More information for *any all and all students going abroad* who are interested in leading and AESOP trip next year!

For Bates College students, faculty and staff

12/01/2015

All **JUNIORS** going abroad winter semester are invited to a brief information session **this Thursday** at 7:30 in Hedge 106. Get ready: AESOP 2016!

There will be another information session next semester for those interested in leading!

09/27/2015

Photo by Joshua P. Kuckens

54 trips, 108 leaders, 460 first-years, canoes, oceans, mountains, and over 2,000 packets of oatmeal!

09/12/2015

54 trips, 108 leaders, 460 first-years, canoes, oceans, mountains, and over 2,000 packets of oatmeal!