JFK Middle School students Rebecca Kauschen, left, 14, and Frankie Rodriguez, third from left, 11, got a chance to try out adaptive cycling with education support professionals Charlene Martel, second from left, and Eve Soucie at Look Park in Florence on Thursday through a collaboration with All Out Adventures and the Northampton schools’ Gaining Opportunity Through Active Learning and Support, or GOALS, program.
JFK Middle School students Rebecca Kauschen, left, 14, and Frankie Rodriguez, third from left, 11, got a chance to try out adaptive cycling with education support professionals Charlene Martel, second from left, and Eve Soucie at Look Park in Florence on Thursday through a collaboration with All Out Adventures and the Northampton schools’ Gaining Opportunity Through Active Learning and Support, or GOALS, program. Credit: STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING

FLORENCE – Students from JFK Middle School’s Gaining Opportunity Through Active Learning and Support, or GOALS, program got a chance to try out adaptive cycling at Look Park in Florence on Thursday thanks to a collaboration with All Out Adventures, which provided the single and tandem recumbent trikes. Several students and education support professionals took a walking field trip to the park where they met with AOA staff and learned how to operate the cycles. Then, after a few warm-up laps around the parking lot, all embarked on a complete loop, wagon-train style, around the park.

Kevin Gutting can be reached at kgutting@gazettenet.com. Follow him on Twitter @KevinGutting.