Coastal Studies for Girls will hold an information session Monday, July 18 at 4:15 p.m. at the Southport Yacht Club. The event is open to students, families and educators who are interested in learning more about the semester school for 10th grade girls. Admissions representatives from the school will be joined by local alumnae to discuss the benefits of studying at CSG.

Coastal Studies for Girls, a member of the national Semester School Network, provides rigorous academics with an experiential focus and is the only semester school dedicated to marine science and leadership education for girls.

Coastal Studies for Girls is located on a 600-acre oceanfront land preserve in Freeport, Maine. Each semester, 20 girls from a variety of schools across the country come to Freeport and live for one semester of their sophomore year in a renovated antique farmhouse on the shores of Casco Bay where they study an interdisciplinary place-based curriculum of academic high school courses in addition to Leadership and Marine Ecosystems. CSG’s Marine Ecosystems class is an immersion in fieldwork culminating in a public presentation of individual research projects. Many previous CSG semester school students have received national awards for their groundbreaking Marine Science research papers completed while attending the semester school.

Coastal Studies for Girls is now accepting applications from rising 10th grade girls to attend spring semester 2017 and from 9th grade girls for the 2017-2018 school year.

The Southport Yacht Club is located at 38 Cosy Harbor Road Southport.

For more information visit www.coastalstudiesforgirls.org or call 207-865-9700.