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del.icio.usYouth Engagement: (Pre-K-25)
Stimulating real-world connections, learning through shared experiences, and empowering next century citizens
America’s Youth are the key to building the next century national park story. The youth engagement programs of the National Park Foundation seek to connect youth from all walks of life to the national parks and empower them to be the best stewards of their national parks.
Programs funded in the youth engagement area allow kids to explore their national parks with their families and become Junior Rangers. Alternatively, at home kids can go online and become WebRangers, and from their classrooms they can electronically explore the mysteries of the national parks through the Electronic Field Trip Program.
This year, the National Park Foundation and the National Park Service are launching two new pilot projects:
First Bloom, piloted in five cities, helps kids from Boys and Girls Clubs learn how to protect fragile ecosystems in their national parks by planting native plants and by designing, planting, and maintaining gardens in their neighborhoods.
Connect Kids, focused in New York City, helps kids and mentors from Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City, connect with the New York Harbor Parks. Kids will learn the importance of these parks to their history and culture.
