Photo: 2022 ASNV Hog Island Scholarship Winners Chrissy Brownson and Candice Centinkaya
Each summer, ASNV offers a full scholarship and transportation to “Sharing Nature: An Educator’s Week” at the National Audubon Society’s Hog Island Audubon Camp in coastal Maine. Hog Island Audubon Camp has offered environmental education programs for adults, teens, families and conservation leaders since 1936. While there, educators learn interdisciplinary hands-on methods and approaches to environmental education while immersed in the natural world. From the Hog Island Audubon Camp website: “Learn practical approaches and add inspiration to your environmental education curriculum during this action-packed program. Our experienced and enthusiastic instructors share their favorite approaches, methods, and activities for engaging both children and adults with nature.”
The applicant must be a public classroom teacher, specialist or school administrator in the ASNV chapter territory (Counties: Arlington, Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William, Rappahannock and Stafford; independent cities: Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Fredericksburg, Leesburg, Manassas and Manassas Park.) Dates for the coming year are July 16-21, 2023. To apply, please complete the online application and submit two letters of recommendation no later than February 28, 2023. One of these must be from your principal. Please see the application for additional details, including post-camp requirements.
2022 Hog Island Scholarship Winners
Would you like to learn more about what a week at the camp is like? You can read the reports of the two scholarship winners to last summer’s camp here.