Students Speak: A Watershed Summit
Keynote Speaker- Richard Louv
Author of Last Child in the Woods:
Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
McMenamins Old St. Francis School
Bend, Oregon
May 13th, 2010
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
The Freshwater Trust and Wolftree are coordinate a watershed summit for local students to present and share their innovative watershed projects in art, science, videography, and hands-on restoration with community members, parents, teachers, and other students. Built upon outdoor experiences and experiential watershed education practices that support the philosophies of internationally known author of Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv, students will present the inspiring outcomes of their recent watershed stewardship projects.
Classes from local elementary, middle, and high schools are invited to participate in the student watershed summit on May 13th , 2010. With the assistance of their teachers, Wolftree, and The Freshwater Trust education coordinators, students will be participating in hands-on stewardship projects in the spring. As an important part of these interdisciplinary projects, students will prepare innovative community presentations to share the outcomes of their student stewardship projects at Students Speak: A Watershed Summit. Teams of students will get the spotlight to tell their watershed stories in their unique own way. The event will be open to the public and will bring regional and statewide recognition for the students’ inspired and engaged work in watershed stewardship. The watershed summit will provide a meaningful, relevant, and timely connection between local students and current on-the-ground watershed restoration projects throughout central Oregon. Specifically, the student watershed summit will help local schools achieve their educational objectives and measures of success by: increasing place-based knowledge amongst students while aligning projects with state benchmarks and common curricular goals; creating a professional forum for students to present watershed projects to parents, teachers, community members, and other students; and integrating art, science, creative writing, and hands-on restoration into a web of watershed stories to help students connect to their home waters..
Together, Wolftree and The Freshwater Trust play an active role in cultivating the next generation of watershed stewards by uniting education, community, and stewardship. As a strong community partner in education, we seek to prepare students to be thriving, engaged, and inspired citizens by:: Increasing student participation in stewardship projects; providing students with essential skills, experience, and watershed knowledge; and cultivating civic responsibility by uniting students and community around their home waters.
Blake Lowrey, Program Manager at 549-1459 or email
