Applications for the Environmental Heroes program—a free after-school program for middle and high school students—are due June 26. The program will be held between August 2015 and June 2016. Environmental Heroes is a joint program of the Cleveland Metroparks at the Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation-Canalway Center and the Leonard Gelfand STEM Center.
Participants in Environmental Heroes will engage in real science with the guidance of experts, collecting and analyzing environmental data, and monitoring the abundance and distribution of amphibians and reptiles in the Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation. The program is open to students, 12 years old and over, who are willing to make a two-year commitment.
Youth will be selected through a competitive application and interview process.
All new and returning participants will spend two weeks in the summer actively developing and improving their field observational and investigative skills.
Orientation and summer research will be weekdays August 3-14 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. After-school sessions begin Sept. 8 and will continue on Tuesdays from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Canalway Center, Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation.
For more information and an application, call 216.368.5075 or e-mail kmk21@case.edu. For more information about the program, visit gelfand.case.edu/programs-and-campus-activities/environmental-heroes/.