Last week saw the successful launch of the Conservation Training Partnership program, the goal of which is to develop and carry out local conservation projects around the state powered by teams of high school students and community volunteers…
Author: Lacroix, Natalie
[Fox 61] Camp Week: How Summer Programs Boost a Child’s Confidence and Resilience
It’s time to start planning your child’s summer! Camp gives kids the opportunity to be independent, in an environment that’s not completely controlled.
[CLEARscapes] Teaching & Outreach: Connecting Students and Teachers to Local Conservation Through STEM
This spring and summer CLEAR is playing a major role in an expansion of the Natural Resources Conservation Academy (NRCA), founded in 2011 by the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment (NRE—one of CLEAR’s academic parents).
[The Balance Sheet] CLT-UCONN Connection
It’s not every day you get to hunker down by the water’s edge, silently watching birds fly and feed as the sun rises, or go slogging through the shallows of the Quinnipiac to learn about riparian buffers, or kayak Hanover Pond to take water samples on a sunny but brisk December day…
[Supporting Connecticut Communities: Progress Report of the UConn Center for Land Use Education & Research] STEM Education and Local Conservation
[Sharon Land Trust Newsletter] SLT Community Partner in UConn NRCA Project
[UConn Today] NSF Awards $3M Grant to Neag School’s Moss, Campbell, and UConn Colleagues
A group of UConn faculty that includes Neag School associate professors David Moss and Todd Campbell has received nearly $3 million in funding from the National Science Foundation’s Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL), a program that seeks to enhance learning in informal environments as well as to broaden access to and engagement in STEM learning opportunities.
[The Balance Sheet] – Cheshire Land Trust Newsletter: Teachable Moments
[UConn Office of Environmental Policy Blog] NRCA Students Help to Renovate a Campus Rain Garden
Despite our best intentions, sometimes things don’t go as planned. As part of its commitment to reducing stormwater impacts to our local streams, UConn installed a rain garden at Mansfield Apartments in 2010. Unfortunately, it was not maintained and the garden failed.
[EnergizeCT] Bridgeport Student Receives Soak up the Rain Scholarship to UConn’s Natural Resources Conservation Academy
On Thursday, June 9, 2016, representatives from The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Aris Land Studio, The National Resources Conservation Academy (NRCA) at the University of Connecticut (UConn), Southern Connecticut Gas (SCG) and The United Illuminating Company (UI), all contributing partners in the Soak up the Rain initiative, gathered at the Discovery Museum and Planetarium in Bridgeport to honor Harding High School student Amanda Hernandez with a scholarship to attend the 2016-2017 NRCA program.