A student on the trip to Aroostook, Maine's northernmost county, learns to drive a tractor.

Students on the Aroostook Service trip with their harvest of potatoes.

Students on a community-immersion trip focusing on immigrant and refugee issues play with neighborhood children in Kennedy Park, Portland.

The Aroostook service group with Micmac tribal leader Richard Silliboy

Micmac tribal leader Richard Silliboy teaches students on the Aroostook service trip the art of potato basket weaving.

Students help organize a study center for immigrant and refugee children.

Throughout the academic year, Bowdoin students tutor children at this study center.

Students on another community-service orientation trip prepare lunch at a Portland soup kitchen.

This community-immersion orientation trip is focused on hunger and homelessness.

Dean Margaret Hazlett helps students prepare a meal at the Preble Street soup kitchen.

Preble Street soup kitchen in Portland

Another community-immersion orientation trip had students fixing up a stormwater runoff garden in Portland.

This service trip is focused on environmental and sustainability issues. Here students are helping the city protect the Back Cove from pollution.

Students on one of the farming orientation trips pull organic potatoes at Crystal Spring Farm in Brunswick.

Students on this farming trip work at a different local farm every day.

Prior to pulling potatoes, the students pulled weeds.

Students on the North Haven Island service trip catch a late-August sunset.

The Panther Pond group goes rock climbing at Jockey Cap in Fryeburg.

Students on old tractors at the Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum .