Schuylkill Acts & Impacts
An Expedition to Inspire Watershed Action
Schuylkill Acts & Impacts is a week-long service-learning program offered to fifteen high school students from communities within the Schuylkill River Watershed.
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June 2018
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September 2018
Turning Your Grounds Into a Classroom!
Presented in Partnership with Longwood Gardens
Learn how you can turn your school grounds or your classroom into an environmentally-based STEM learning spot.
FREE 2-Day Training in DIY Environmental Sensing Networks for Streams and Rivers
Presented in Partnership With the Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring at Dickinson College
Sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency
A two-day training session on building and deploying do-it-yourself wireless stream sensor stations using the Mayfly Data Logger to collect real-time data.
Eco Teachers: What’s in Your Watershed?
Presented in Partnership with Longwood Gardens
Learn about watersheds, how to complete a habitat survey, and create catchment systems in this STEM-based teacher professional development workshop.
Creek Explorers Camp
Calling all junior nature explorers — the wilderness is calling! Experience forests and streams like never before, through a week-long camp of hands-on discovery. Campers will spend the week conducting real outdoor scientific experiments in the Stroud Center’s experimental watershed, honing their skills at wilderness survival techniques, and having fun with their crew during daily team building games.
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Educator Stream Ecology Workshop
Presented in Partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and Chester County Intermediate Unit
Save the date! More details coming soon.
Teacher Canoe Trip on Octoraro Lake
Presented in Partnership with Sultana Education Foundation and Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail
Experience the splendor of a relatively unknown jewel while canoeing the 620-acre Octoraro reservoir.
Rock Pack Workshop
The Rock Pack Experiment is a fun, hands-on research tool for all students and citizens of all ages, demonstrating the interconnectedness between our actions on land and life in streams.
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Joan and Dick Stroud Memorial Lecture Presents Tim Palmer
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, enjoy an evening with author, conservationist, and photographer Tim Palmer as he talks about his newest book, Wild and Scenic Rivers: An American Legacy.
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Best Management Practices for Whole Farm Restoration
Save the date! Director of Watershed Restoration Matt Ehrhart will speak on Thursday, September 27, at the Sultana Education Foundation in Chestertown, Maryland.
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