Photo: Atlantic Puffins, Kevin VandeVusse/Audubon Photography Awards
Each summer Audubon Society of Northern Virginia offers a full scholarship and transportation to “Sharing Nature: An Educator’s Week” at National Audubon Society’s Hog Island Camp in Maine. This year’s session is July 12-17, 2020, and will feature workshops on educational techniques, a boat trip to the restored Atlantic Puffin and Tern colony on Eastern Egg Rock, intertidal explorations, and hiking through Hog Island's unspoiled spruce-fir forest.
Applicants must be a public classroom teacher, specialist or school administrator in the ASNV chapter territory. Counties: Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince William, and Stafford. Independent cities: Alexandria, Falls Church, Fredericksburg, Manassas, and Manassas Park.
We have extended the application deadline to March 1, 2020.
A link to the scholarship application can be found here.
If you have any questions please email: youtheducation@audubonva.org
For further information about this session at Hog Island, please visit their website by clicking here or watch this great video.
The scholarship announcement will be on March 16, 2020. Thanks for spreading the word in your school district, and we look forward to receiving applications from your schools!