The mission of Grow Your Lunch is to support the development of successful edible gardening programs in schools. The team is launching a crowdfunding campaign with Barnraiser and they are asking you to join in efforts to support “edible education” as they seek to produce a “Top 10 Gardening Tips for Budding Gardeners” handbook and share it for… Read More
Make a difference in the lives of children! Roughing It hires summer seasonal, year-round, and volunteer employees, and offers internships to students interested in earning course credit for school. Roughing It offers all-outdoors programs located at the Lafayette Reservoir. Instruction for all abilities in horseback riding, swimming, canoeing, fishing, adventure and more is available to… Read More
Participate in the restoration of San Francisco’s iconically beautiful forest. We meet at 9am and divide up into teams (some will work in the native plant nursery, some will tackle the trail work, others will weed planting areas and do some planting). We work until 12:30, then break for pizza and refreshments. Parking is free… Read More
DUE: Friday, January 30 The Honors Research Program (HRP) brings a group of honors-level high school seniors to the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography (URI GSO) and to E/V Nautilus for 5 weeks during the summer. HRP students work with scientists and engineers at URI GSO to learn about oceanography and research methods for… Read More
DUE: Friday, January 30 Do you love the ocean and the outdoors? Do you have an interest in studying wild and diverse ecosystems? Do you dream of one day working as a Marine Biologist? Get ready for the summer adventure of a lifetime! The Chincoteague Bay Field Station of the Marine Science Consortium is excited… Read More
Do you know Photoshop? We’re adding a “virtual urban forest” to our website to thank our donors; each tree in the forest will be labeled with a donor’s name. Our graphic designer is creating the forest floor and a handful of trees. We need you to fill the forest by duplicating the trees and adding the labels… Read More
Contamination of drinking water by arsenic is a severe health crisis in many regions of Bangladesh, and we are training high school students there to measure arsenic concentration in water so they can avoid unsafe wells. This is a wonderful opportunity for American students to learn something of the problems and culture in a developing country…. Read More