Posts tagged “Education”
A Year of Community Engagement on the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
Before I
moved to Northwestern Washington to serve in a year-long AmeriCorps internship for
the National Forest Foundation, I had visited the Seattle area a few times.
Each time, the weather had been a typical overcast day, with showers ranging
from a light sprinkle, to a heavy downpour. Having grown up in Central Oregon,
where there are about as many sunny days as there are in Hawaii, I knew that it
would take some time getting used to the cloudy, heavy grey skies. The first
time I...
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Science and Engineering Apprenticeship: Providing Students a "Hands-On" Education
“There are some things you can’t learn from a book; you need
to experience them to really understand,” Caitlyn Bonkoski explains to me as
she stands thigh deep in Upper Dominguez Creek on the Uncompahgre Plateau.
Caitlyn and her classmate, Sarah Stalcup, are the first students to
participate in the Delta High School Apprenticeship in Science and Engineering
sponsored by the US Forest Service. The 6-week summer apprenticeship
offers local students the opportunity to job...
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