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Richard Stanley
April 8th 2020
Laura Branby, the Pittsburgh-area educator for Allegheny College’s award-winning Creek Connections watershed education program, has received the 2020 Outstanding Environmental Educator Award from the Pennsylvania Association of Environmental Educators. “Standing with me are many, many educators, formal and informal, and environmental professionals who work alongside me every day. They are the ones who teach me,
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Richard Stanley
March 4th 2020
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Richard Stanley
January 20th 2020
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Richard Stanley
March 15th 2019
Creek Connections will host its 24th annual student research symposium on Friday, April 5, in the Henderson Campus Center at Allegheny College, and community members are invited to view students’ project displays beginning at 10:15 a.m. Creek Connections is an outreach program of Allegheny College that brings hands-on, inquiry-based education about watersheds to students ranging
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Richard Stanley
October 11th 2018
Allegheny College’s Creek Connections program has received a $40,000 grant from the Grable Foundation to fund educator expenses in the Pittsburgh area, such as workshops, water-testing kits and school travel over the next two years. “The grant allows us to continue our high level of support to Pittsburgh-area teachers, including materials for water-quality monitoring and
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Richard Stanley
June 6th 2018
Creek Connections at Allegheny College has received a $2,100 grant from Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation and the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy to purchase water-quality monitoring equipment. “This grant is important because we are a long-time successful environmental-education project with ongoing costs,” said Wendy Kedzierski, Creek Connections project director. “We have a few schools that have been
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Richard Stanley
December 14th 2017
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Erica Erwin
October 5th 2017
Creek Connections Project Director Wendy Kedzierski received a full scholarship to attend the 2017 Mid-Atlantic Water Resources Conference October 12-13 at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
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Erica Erwin
April 3rd 2017
Creek Connections held a Teacher Development Workshop hosted by Seneca Valley Intermediate High School with 25 educators in attendance. Dr. Zachary Loughman and Dr. Karen Kettler from West Liberty University presented Project Crawdad. Teachers learned about crayfish identification and life history as well as activities they can do with their students and how they can
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Erica Erwin
April 3rd 2017
Laura Branby, Creek Connections Pittsburgh educator and Creek Camp director, partnered with Dr. Paula Purnell of Sense of Place Learning for a workshop at the 2017 Pennsylvania Environmental Educators Association Conference at McKeever Environmental Learning Center on March 14 titled “Water, Land & Air: Science, Technology, Research, Engineering Art, & Mathematics in Urban Communities.”
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