Photo: Atlantic Puffins, Walker Golder
Looking for new ways to inspire your students to engage with nature? The Audubon Society of Northern Virginia offers a full scholarship and transportation to “Sharing Nature: An Educator’s Week” at National Audubon Society’s Hog Island Camp in Maine. While there, you will learn interdisciplinary hands-on methods and approaches to environmental education while immersed in the natural world. This year’s session is currently scheduled for July 11-16, 2021. Hog Island will be instituting safety-related procedural changes in response to the coronavirus pandemic, including all-outdoor activities and single-occupancy sleeping arrangements.
Applicants must be classroom teachers, specialists, or school administrators working in one of the following counties: Arlington, Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William, Rappahannock and Stafford. Applicants from Alexandria, Falls Church, Fredericksburg, Manassas, and Manassas Park cities are also eligible.
To apply, please complete the online application and submit two letters of recommendation no later than April 2, 2021. Please see the application for additional details, including post-camp requirements.
If you have questions, please contact youtheducation@audubonva.org.