Becoming: Formed by our focus View scenes from the Core Formation Experiences (CFE) projects around the Twin Cities. Photos taken March 17, 18 and 19, 2026, mostly by the Media Creation team:...
Video: CFE 2026 local sites
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Slideshow: CFE Scotland
M.A. Players bring spring play to Edinburgh festival (Photos and slideshow to be added when the group returns in August 2025.)
Slideshow: CFE 2025 local sites
Light the Way: Core Formation Experiences spread light around cities during annual March experiential learning week Photos, videos and audio clips created and gathered by the CFE Media Creation...
Slideshow: CFE Kenya (October 2024)
An unforgettable experience While most Core Formation Experiences overnight trips are scheduled for March 2025, CFE got off to an early start with a trip to Kenya. Group participant and journalism...
1 in 6 Minnesotans go hungry
Why many neighbors struggle to meet basic needs, and how you can help As humans, we constantly rely on food to survive, and it should be a right to have access to it. However, that is far from the...
CFE’s new moniker: Core Formation Experiences
CFE's Name Changes to Better Fit Its Purpose This year, the name of CFE, the annual one week program in March that sends students to local, national and international projects, has been altered from...
CFE during COVID
All the ways Cultural Field Experience will be different this year After the world was struck with the global pandemic...
Volunteering during a pandemic
Students continue to serve, despite COVID-19 limits It was a summer day and junior Tessa Bianchi and her family were...
Why CFE is important
Why CFE is important Our freshmen, sophomore, junior and senior staff perspectives on the importance of CFE Every...
Discovering new stories
Discovering new stories This year's CFE theme puts focus on listening to others Pitter-patters and stomps from shoes...
Understanding a crisis
This CFE, 18 students on the Germany/Italy trip had the opportunity to tour Berlin with a newly arrived Syrian refugee...
Wrong place, wrong time; still happy
"Little Simeona, still small but sufficiently smart, goes to her mother who is sitting in the garden under the...
Kick start of CFE group meetings
Outside, the flecks of wintry white snow drift softly to the ground, coating the trees, tennis courts and clock tower...
France CFE group meets to prepare for trip
Today the French trip CFE group all gathered in french teacher and group leader Mark Norlander's room to discuss more...
Day 140 CFE Experiences
Students share their stories from this year's CFE week. Photo by Maddie Binning.