Bahamas Events
During your week in the Bahamas, there is so much more than just the beach! Check out the various side trips, events, and programs created for Commencement Week 2010! View the Commencement Week booklet (please note that this is the booklet for 2009; events, times, and prices are subject to change in 2010) for all the information you'll need in the Bahamas!
Side Trip Options
All signs ups are located at the Information Desk of the Student Center.
Business Bowl
The Bahamas: More than a Beach, Be a Coach
Third Annual Bentley Bahamas Business Bowl
Bentley is hosting 100 Bahamian Junior Achievement students in a mini-case/product development competition event. Twelve teams of Bahamian high school students, coached by Bentley seniors, will compete to develop and present their best ideas to a panel of judges.
We hope that you can act as a coach for a student team. You and your fellow Bentley coach would help the team to get organized, answer questions, and generally cheer them on as they work on their project. No special technical knowledge is required, just energy and enthusiasm. Seniors who participated last year had a wonderful time. They loved working with the Junior Achievement students and the JA students loved them.
Busses will leave the Atlantis to go to Bowl site at about 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday (by this time you probably will have soaked up about as much sun as you can take for the day) and end no later the 7:00 p.m. (so there will plenty of time to join your Bentley friends for dinner before our buses leave for a club at about 10:00 p.m.).
This is a great opportunity to give back something to the Bahamian community that hosts us and will certainly be a fun afternoon. We have lots of prizes to award to the Bahamian students as well as to Bentley coaches
Coaching opportunities still available. If interested talk to Bentley staff member or sign up with Jeannette Buntin: jbuntin@bentley.edu
It’s the best thing you’ll do in the Bahamas!
Golf in the Bahamas
On-site at the Atlantis Paradise Island Resort
Greens fees (18 holes): TBD
Club rental: TBD
Shoes: TBD
Late-day fee: TBD
Minutes away at the Sheraton Cable Beach Resort
Greens fees (nine holes): TBD
Club rental: TBD
No shoe rental available
Straw Market
Festival Place Shopping
National Gallery of Art of the Bahamas/ Tour of Olde Town Bahamas
Bahamian art work is the primary focus at the gallery, located in the restored 19th century Villa Doyle, but some ex-pat treasures are also featured. A current exhibition features work by American modernist, David Smith. Take this opportunity to visit with Bentley’s ArtGuy, Jim Morris.
http://www.nagb.org.bs/nagb.html
If interested, email Jim, jmorris@bentley.edu, to get on list or just show up at Beach Tower Lobby.
On Site Activities
Welcome Speaker
Photography Contest
Is there a budding photographer in the senior class? Bring along your digital camera –- the Bahamas are beautiful -– lots of picture-taking ops! E-mail your best pictures to us. The best photos will win prizes and be displayed at Baccalaureate! It’s free! It’s easy! It’s fun! For more information, contact Gerri Taylor at gtaylor@bentley.edu
Volleyball Tournament
Eight teams of six, at least two women and/or two men per team! For more information, contact John Mulroy at jmulroy@bentley.edu
Mandara Spa at the Atlantis
Special for Bentley students!
Sign up in advance for any spa treatment and receive two days free at the fitness center!
Check out the rates and services at: http://www.atlantis.com/play/spa.aspxEmail Stacey.Skinner@kerzner.com & Pia.Rolle@kerzner.com to make your reservation.
Dolphin Cay- Atlantis
Meet and swim with playful dolphins! Click here for more information.
