On and Off Campus Activities
Students have the opportunity to experience a variety of both on and off campus activities while at Clarinda. Dorms regularly schedule off campus outings for their positive rated students. We bring in guest speakers to talk about their experiences and use their messages to help motivate students to move forward in their lives. Activities include:
On Campus Activities
- Intramural Sports
- Geo Bowl
- Athletic events
- Guest speakers
- Scary Guy
- Tony Temple – former running back at the University of Missouri
- Brad Bigler – Mens basketball coach at Southwest Minnesota State University featured on ESPN E:60 program
Off Campus Activities
- Miniature golf
- Movies
- Day trips to local lakes for cook outs or swimming
- Local swimming pool
- Bowling
- Special events in Omaha and Des Moines
- Harlem Globetrotters games
- Monster Jam
- Professional sporting events
Summer Olympics
Clarinda Academy Summer Olympics is a 3-day event of fun, competition and dorm pride. This event serves as a great time for both staff and students to get outside and have some fun as well as develop relationships. Each dorm spends time leading up to the Summer Olympics creating a dorm chant, shirt and banner to represent themselves throughout the games. Students focus on using teamwork and communication skills to help each other be as successful as possible. Dorms compete in a series of both individual and team events, earning points in each event for finishing 1st, 2nd or 3rd.
Over the course of the 3 days, students compete in events such as egg toss, 5-man sled push, free throw shootout, wheelbarrow races, tire toss, hula hooping, races on inflatable obstacle courses and hamster balls, and everyone’s favorite - the dorm tug-of-war. On the final day of Summer Olympics, both staff and students compete side by side in the Grand Finale event leading into the announcement of the winner of the Summer Olympic games.
