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September 1, 2000
Vol. 30, No. 274
For more information contact Nancy Rolli at 302-739-4506.
Local Students to Join More Than 50,000 Children Nationwide
in Raising Awareness of the Importance of Protecting Water Resources
Who: Project WET (Water Education for Teachers) and the
Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control,
Division of Parks and Recreation.
What: Water Festival
When: Friday, Sept. 22, 2000
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Where: Fort Delaware State Park
Pea Patch Island
More than 500 local students will join together Friday, Sept. 22 in
a nationwide effort to raise awareness of the critical need for water
education. The initiative will involve simultaneous day-long events
in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the Northern Mariana
Islands. The events will celebrate the role of water in our lives and
teach children about the science and history of water, one of our most
important natural resources.
The national effort, titled "Make a Splash with Project WET,"
is being organized by Project WET (Water Education for Teachers), an
international, interdisciplinary, water science and education program
for formal and non-formal educators of K-12 students, with support from
The Perrier Group of America and its local Poland Spring brand. Lee
Jennings and Nancy Rolli of the Delaware Department of Natural Resources
are organizing the local water festival. A new interactive and animated
online web site, www.projectwet.org, is available for students who cannot
participate.
The Fort Delaware festival will host Delaware students in the 4th -
8th grades. The students will participate in an interactive series of
programs designed around solving the problems of water shortages and
pollution during the year 1864 on Pea Patch Island. The setting will
incorporate the historic problems, which beset the military management
of this large prisoners of war facility, and the modern problems and
issues facing the effective management of water resources.
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For further information on how students can attend, call Lee Jennings
at 302-739-4413.
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