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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a 3-year, $205,767 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) Cooperative Agreement to the Sultana Education Foundation (SEF) to support the "Wild Wetlands" project. This program provides meaningful watershed educational experiences for all 6th grade students in Queen Anne's County Public Schools, focusing on the impacts of human development on aquatic ecosystems and the role of wetlands in mitigating...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Chesapeake Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) Program awarded a $293,959 three-year Cooperative Agreement grant to Henrico County Public Schools (HCPS) to support Project Watershed. This initiative is designed to deepen environmental literacy by building the capacity of K-12 educators in HCPS through a specialized micro-credential program rooted in NOAA's Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEE) 101 and Facilitator's...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Chesapeake Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) Program awarded a 3-year, $152,613 Cooperative Agreement to Boxerwood Education Association to support the Tending Project NEST (Nurturing Environmental Stewardship Together) initiative. This funding will strengthen the sustainability of the long-running, equitable, and systemic Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEE) partnership between Boxerwood and 12...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Chesapeake Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) Program is providing a $300,000 2-year Cooperative Agreement to The Pennsylvania State University to support the Pennsylvania Environmental Literacy Network (PA ELIT). The project aims to enhance coordination, training, and capacity building for environmental literacy and meaningful watershed educational experiences (MWEEs) professional development in Pennsylvania K-12 schools. This...

This Project Grant award of $150,000 from the National Park Service's Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network program (CFDA 15.930) will support the Black In Marine Science (BIMS) nonprofit organization in advancing two key objectives: Increase environmental DNA (eDNA) literacy in Black communities within the Chesapeake Bay watershed by collecting eDNA data and incorporating it into BIMS's long-term datasets. Provide a platform to share and intertwine ecological data with storytelling from Black...

This Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the NOAA Mission-Related Education Awards program (CFDA 11.008) provides $100,000 to Louisiana State University to facilitate teachers' and students' connection to their local ecosystems in South Louisiana. In Year 1, the project will engage teachers in two 12-hour professional learning experiences and a 40-hour summer institute focused on the driving question "How does the water connect us...

The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $148,906 Project Grant to the Flour Bluff Independent School District (FBISD) to implement the "Solution to Pollution" Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEE) program. The project will address oceanography, aquatic sciences, conservation biology, environmental science, and ecology curriculum for grades 6-12 within FBISD. The project aligns with NOAA's Mission-Related Education Awards...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a 2-year, $273,669 Cooperative Agreement under the Chesapeake Bay Studies program (CFDA 11.457) to the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE). The funding will support a project to build the capacity of environmental literacy programs in Maryland public schools by increasing access to meaningful watershed educational experiences, cultivating new and strengthening existing education partnerships, and increasing...

This two-year, $298,908 project grant from the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will fund the Cascade Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group to deliver meaningful watershed educational experiences and curriculum integration for all 5th grade students in the East Wenatchee, Washington school district. The goal is to increase authentic, locally relevant science education and student-led stewardship actions to improve local watersheds and recover imperiled salmon...

This Project Grant award of $987,639 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports a collaboration between Pontchartrain Conservancy, the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley, and Louisiana Sea Grant to co-design, implement, and study a community science-based flood monitoring model in under-resourced communities in southeast Louisiana impacted by climate change. The project aims to increase multi-directional communication, community participation in...