2025: A Year in Review
As 2025 comes to a close, we reflect with gratitude on a year filled with adventure, laughter, and learning. Please enjoy this look back at some of our favorite moments of the last year, from Summer Bridge to Venture Out, LITs to YPCs, to all of the staff members who make these programs possible.
January: Winter at PBC
February: Hightstown High School Peer Leaders, Paterson Arts & Science Charter School, PBC Annual Leadership Dinner
March: Wilderness First Responders Training, New Maintenance Building, New Program Building, Village Charter School Venture Out, Garden Beginnings, TCNJ Bonner Scholars
April: Bronx Center for Science & Mathematics, Hedgepeth-Williams Elementary School, Jefferson Elementary School Venture Out, PBC Staff Meeting, Wildlife Sightings at Blairstown Campus
May: Mercer Street Friends Venture Out, Soirée Under the Stars, Hudson Arts & Science Charter School, Princeton Friends School
June: PBC Staff Meeting, Summer Staff Training, Foundation Academies Summer Bridge, Hunt Lodge Renovation Completion
July: Summer Bridge Book Fair, Leaders-in-Training Begins, LIT-Young Professionals Committee Day, Roseville Outreach Community Corporation Summer Bridge, Rutgers Future Scholars- Newark, Mercer Street Friends Summer Bridge, Green Guerillas, Sprout U School of the Arts Summer Bridge, Author Visit from Steve Chiger, RISE Summer Camp Summer Bridge, Bronx Center for Science & Math
August: LIT Camping Trip, Foundation Academies Summer Bridge, Center for Child and Family Achievement Summer Bridge, El Sistema, Princeton University Community Action- Pace Center for Civic Engagement
September: PBC Family Day, PBC Board Day in Blairstown, The Brooklyn Latin School, Links to Youth Golf Outing, Delaware Valley Friends School, Spring Creek Community School
October: PBC Staff Meeting, An Evening at Bass Lake, Success Academy Lafayette Middle School, Jack & Jill of America, Inc., Village Charter School 8th Graders
November: Success Academy Charter School- Harlem East Middle School, Clara Parker Intermediate School Venture Out, 45th Annual Woodcutters Day of Service, End-of-Season Staff Debrief
December: PBC Staff Holiday Luncheon & Snow in Blairstown
Thank you to all of the students, families, teachers, school and community leaders who experienced the joy of the outdoors at the Princeton-Blairstown Center this year. We look forward to a year ahead filled with community-building and adventure!