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Youth Watershed Explorer Challenge

 800 304 Stroud Water Research Center

Calling all youths ages 12-16! Join us for a program that pairs investigative field experiences with virtual learning. Explorers will be guided through three challenges focused on the significance of First State National Historical Park’s Brandywine Valley unit.

STREAM Girls recorded real scientific data and reflected on their experiences in field notebooks.

STREAM Girls Program Empowers Today’s Girls to Become Tomorrow’s Leaders

 800 450 Stroud Water Research Center

“It’s always fun to learn new things, but STREAM Girls was different because of how many new things we experienced that we never had before.”

ScoutReach Day Camp Empowers Young Stewards for Stronger Communities

 800 450 Stroud Water Research Center

Nearly 70 male and female Cub Scouts ages 5-11 experienced hands-on, minds-on learning stations and Q&A sessions with real water science professionals.

A Wish Come True: Thousands More to Learn Freshwater Science, Stewardship in New Education Pavilion

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The pavilion adds a fourth outdoor space, which will allow our educators to keep class sizes small even when there is a group as large as 120 students.

Scouts Get Their Boots Wet for Science and Stewardship

 800 600 Stroud Water Research Center

Our badge program for Cub Scouts invites young minds to explore the scientific method and exercise their most powerful scientific tools: their senses.

Fourth graders taking tree measurements

Learning Leading to Action: Young Heroes Protecting Our Waterways

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Students are not only learning how to protect our waterways; they are also conducting their own scientific research or restoring healthy streams — or sometimes both.

“Muddy Boots Fund” Created to Benefit Boy Scouts and Stroud Center

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As a result of a generous gift from brothers Greg, Barry, Keith, and Ray Bentley, the Chester County Council Boy Scouts of America and the Stroud Center are expanding their partnership to offer additional outdoor and environmental STEM programs.

The winner of our activity patch design contest

And the Winner Is …

 800 585 Stroud Water Research Center

In fall 2017, the Stroud Center’s Education Department sponsored a design contest to develop an activity patch for use in its scout and other youth programs. The public was invited…

Thomas P. Bentley Muddy Boots Fund for Chester County Council, BSA Programs

 800 532 Stroud Water Research Center

The establishment of the Muddy Boots fund has made Stroud Water Research Center education programs free for youth in Chester County Council, Boy Scouts of America. Programs have expanded to…

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.