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Jen Totora teaching rowing

Meet Jennifer Totora, Stroud’s New Education Specialist

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Totora brings more than 15 years of combined environmental education and field work experience. A self-proclaimed “STEMinist,” she has a passion for sharing the wonders of the natural world with kids of all ages and a specific interest in inspiring underserved girls to become the next leaders in science and engineering.

Westtown School students learn about monitoring streamside forests.

Students Take to the Woods to Monitor Streamside Forests

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This spring, more than 130 students helped Stroud Center educators and watershed restoration staff monitor streamside forests in the Middle-Schuylkill and Brandywine-Christina watersheds.

Stroud Water Research Center Streamside Classroom Project

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This project enhances our streamside classroom along White Clay Creek at Stroud Water Research Center with the construction of three educational kiosks and various interpretive signs and seating areas. Interpretive…

Collaborative Research: Introducing Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) Science to Students and Teachers

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The Critical Zone encompasses the external or near-surface Earth extending from the top of the vegetation canopy down to and including the zone of freely circulating groundwater. This project engages…

Girls performing a water chemistry test as part of a stream study

Education Programs Reach New and Bigger Audiences

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Our goal is to engage about 10,000 children and adults in our programs on a yearly basis by 2020 and sustain that number into the future.

Two chairs sit in a small lawn area surrounded by native plantings.

Your Livable Landscape: Cultivating an Ecosystem Esthetic

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An educational project showing how a shift to an ecosystem esthetic can reduce the carbon footprint of a landowner’s landscape while its maintaining beauty.

Vince O'Donnell

Vince O’Donnell

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Part-Time Environmental Educator

Eagle Scout Payton Shonk

Eagle Scout Honored for Design of Outdoor Education Kiosk

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Payton Shonk was honored for his Eagle Scout project, an education kiosk, at the Stroud Center’s dedication of a new outdoor classroom.

Stroud Center education staff at the NAAEE Conference

Education Staff Lead Presentations and Winning Canoe at NAAEE Conference

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Stroud Center education staff continued their international impact at the recent North American Association for Environmental Education conference.

Educators working at a table during a workshop.

Expanded Professional Development Programs for Educators

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We’re expanding our professional development programs for educators to include the WikiWatershed webinar series, more workshops at the Stroud Center, and an emerging partnership with the Chester County Intermediate Unit.