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Master Gardeners to celebrate 20 years 2:16 p.m., Jan. 30, 2006--New Castle County’s Master Gardener program is celebrating 20 years of educational service with a presentation and workshop, Friday and Saturday, Feb. 10 and 11, on how teachers can use their surroundings for environmental education. Both events are open to the public. Since 1986, Master Gardener volunteer educators have assisted UD’s Cooperative Extension Service in providing science-based horticulture and environmental science education throughout Delaware. The Friday talk, “Place-based Environmental Education: A Path to Improved Environmental Quality, Academic Achievement and Community Vitality," by Robert “Bo” Hoppin, project director for the Antioch New England Institute, begins with a reception and light refreshments at 6:15 p.m., at the New Castle County Cooperative Extension office at 910 S. Chapel St., in Newark. Hoppin will speak at 7 p.m. Admission is $5 and advance registration is required. Hoppin has more than 17 years of experience integrating environmental education into the landscape and culture of local communities. He has worked as a field-based educator with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Annapolis. He also is project director for the Antioch Institute's CO-SEED program, which links the graduate school with a local community-based learning center and a public school to integrate place-based environmental education into all aspects of the public school's curriculum. Hoppin will conduct a workshop, "Starting Place-based Education Initiatives in Your Schools and Communities," from 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Feb. 11, in the Fischer Greenhouse Laboratory on the campus of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, in Newark. Cost is $10. Advance registration is required for both events. To register, call (302) 831-2506 or visit [http://ag.udel.edu/ncc/mg/hoppin.html]. |
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