Hear directly from the Watershed STEM Grantees as they implement their projects, adapt to challenges, and work collaboratively toward a blue planet. Join us on their journey!
- August 2022: "Visual Learning Legacies Crafted by Youth Watershed Leaders" by Sarah Frantz, education program manager at Artist Boat
- July 2022: "Underwater Explorers Snorkel the Lake Champlain Watershed" by Susan McClure, executive director of Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
- June 2022: "School-Based MWEE's Maximum Impact!" by Lilly Meighan, education and outreach coordinator of Lynchburg Water Resources
- May 2022: "Reflection of an Outdoor Educator" by Emily Flaherty, School to Sea director of Salem Sound Coastwatch
- April 2022: "Reconnecting with Our Wetlands" by Polly Burns, program director at ReNEW Schools, and Dinah Maygarden, director of the Coastal Education Program at the University of New Orleans
- March 2022: "Island Champions of Coastal Resilience" by Diana Papini Warren, executive director of Learning Endeavors
- February 2022: "Weathering the COVID-19 Storm: Adapting Educational Experiences at 21st Century Community Learning Centers" by David Kline, watershed education specialist at Stroud Water Research Center
- January 2022: "School Grounds to Sound" by Abby Peklo, SGS project director at EdAdvance
- December 2021: "Connecting with the Great Lakes through Watershed Education" by Juliana Lisuk, associate director, Inland Seas Education Association
- November 2021: "Blazing Trails for CCLC Youth and Families" by Elise Sheffield, education director, Boxerwood Education Association
- October 2021: "PIVOOOOOT!” - Flint Partners Persevere with Passion Through the Pandemic" by Autumn Mitchell, education programs manager at the Flint River Watershed Coalition
- September 2021: "A Professional Journey in Cultivating Stewardship of Land and Water Using the 21st Century Community Learning Center Model" by Ayana Melvan, senior director of strategic partnerships, Mission Programs at Mystic Aquarium
- August 2021: "Puget Sound Estuaries: Inspiring the Next Generation of Stewards of Puget Sound Through Exploration and Education" by Paris McClusky, executive director for Puget Sound Estuarium
- July 2021: "Urban Watersheds: Adjusting Instruction During COVID-19" by Katheranne Reese, program coordinator for Environmental Science Center
- June 2021: "Celebrating Watersheds and Wildlife: Bringing MWEE to Youth Creatively During COVID-19" by Kirsi Johnson from St. Lucie County, Florida, Environmental Resources Department & Oxbow Eco-Center
- May 2021: "Stepping Outside" by Mary Ronan, from the Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve in Depew, New York
- April 2021: "It's All About the Connections" by Creek Connections Director Wendy Kedzierski and Allegheny College Project Assistants Gretchen Barbera and Isabella Petitta
- March 2021: "Staying Engaged from Afar" by Riley Hazel, student assistant at the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education
- February 2021: "Training Teachers to Bring the Outside In" by Meredeth Dash, VA environmental education specialist for the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
- January 2021: "Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies: Kenai Watersheds" by Katie Gavenus, program director for the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies
- December 2020: "Kilo Kai, to Observe the Ocean—Connecting Land Use and Its Impacts on the Nearshore Ecosystem" by Derek Esibill, from the Pacific American Foundation in Hawaii
- November 2020: "Mass Audubon: Place-Based STEM Meets You Where You Are by Cori Brauer, education coordinator at Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary
We are so excited about this partnership! We can’t wait to hear the first gasps and exclamations of 'ewww!' and 'whoa!' as students wade into cold rivers and mud marshes, look at macroinvertebrates and plankton up close or hold a sea star for the first time. —Katie Gavenus, Program Director at the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies
We are so excited about this partnership! We can’t wait to hear the first gasps and exclamations of 'ewww!' and 'whoa!' as students wade into cold rivers and mud marshes, look at macroinvertebrates and plankton up close or hold a sea star for the first time. —Katie Gavenus, program director at the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies
The NOAA Office of Education and NAAEE is partnering to increase environmental and science literacy among NOAA’s partners and external networks. This five-year partnership is supported by the U.S. Department of Education, NOAA and NAAEE are working together to provide enriching after-school watershed-related STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) projects through NOAA-21st Century Community Learning Centers Watershed STEM Education Partnership grants. These grants will support programming for a total of 100 local 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) sites and their students. The 30 selected projects are serving 18 states, ranging from Alaska to Florida.