Parent Jennifer Kelleher hugs David Hughes after her son Conor graduated.

David Hughes, the founder of Huge Experiences and the New River Academy, continues to lead programs and administrative duties. This year David will be a speaker at the Whitewater Symposium on: "How to Develop Your Teen Leadership Kayak Program" and "Developing a Professional Staff as Ambassadors." David is a practitioner of a positive reinforcement educational model.

"Welcome to my blog. Here I want to offer educators and the whitewater community a resource of information including: kayak adventure travel tips, kayak instruction and lessons, working educational tools for teen development, and my own personal thoughts." -David Hughes