SoundWaters ’13
Old Saybrook, for “Coastal Explorers: Meaningful Watershed Educational Exploration for Middle School Students,” to introduce their Coastal Explorers program into seven Middlesex County middle schools. The program teaches rigorous, hands-on environmental education to increase students’ scientific understanding of the Long Island Sound watershed and the downstream effects of their daily activities. Besides working directly with the students, SoundWaters provides a customized, on-line watershed science curriculum for teachers to conduct with their students. They estimate that the program will reach 1400 students in grades 6 – 8 as well as their science teachers. $12,500