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Education Programs

Through our education programs, we’re not just helping improve STEM academic skills; we’re also educating the next generation of environmental stewards, voters and government leaders. Considering that the impacts of climate change we’re seeing now (such as increased floods, storms and temperature extremes) are expected to worsen in the coming years, such education is critical to their future.

Summer Student Course

Summer Program

Students learn leadership, stewardship and conservation while observe and engage in restoration activities in our Ohio River Watershed.

Mussels in the Classroom

School Program

Students learn about the importance of mussels to an ecosystem, their life cycle, and their current status in the environment.

River Explorer

School Program

Students climb into rivers to study fish, macroinvertebrates and water quality through our River Explorer program.

THE IMPACT

Your Donation Makes a Big Impact

$25 can provide food for the freshwater mussel “ambassadors” we use in our Mussels in the Classroom program.
$100 can buy water quality equipment to enable us to identify pollution problems.
$500 can help 50 students be River Explorers for a day of learning in a river or creek.
$1,000 can plant 100 native trees to restore critical habitat and help keep our water clean.

Kingswood Park ORF Restoration Side B - Before

Kingswood Park ORF Restoration Side B - After

Kingswood Park