Team Building for Eco-'Cuse Explorers

Wednesday March 14, 2012 by Aggie
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Team Building for Eco-'Cuse Explorers
Team Building for Eco-'Cuse Explorers
Team Building for Eco-'Cuse Explorers

Each month the youth will gather to learn about Green Infrastructure (GI).  They will learn from OEI and OEC staff and  OEC youth (15 -19 years old) who are trained and hired to install GI.  The POC and OEC hopes the Eco-'Cuse Explorers when they age out of the younger program will apply for a job at OEC. Besides the monthly program in Syracuse, during the summer the Explorers will go to a DEC week-long camp in the Adirondacks to further their environmental education

 

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Wednesday November 28, 2012 by Aggie

2012 YECE Update

YECE youth and OEC planting a rain garden
YECE youth and OEC planting trees at Kirk Park

The 2012 Young Eco-'Cuse Explorer (YECE) program ended with 9 children (11-14 yrs old) going to NYSDEC's summer  camp in Adironacks and then doing hands-on projects in the fall with our partner groups Onondaga Earth Corps (OEC) and Onondaga Environmental Institute (OEI).  Together, we planted a demonstration rain garden off Newell Street and planted trees in Kirk Park, an initiative of Cornell Cooperative Extension.  These Saturday activities finished our 2012 program.

More Updates

Apr 5: Eco-'Cuse Explorers Learn about GI
Jan 25: NYSDEC Awards POC and Its Partners a 2012 Environmental Justice Grant
Jul 29: Urban youth go to DEC's Camp Pack Forest
Jun 19: POC strategy meeting
Jun 19: DEC Campers visit Karen Kerney's orchard and garden
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