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component efforts have been successful in bolstering
environmental education and in providing related
materials & resources that support and enhance local
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...about our association with Educators for Connecting
Research
to the K-16 Classroom
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Thank you... to the USAID staff and
the 18 young people from
Sir McChessney George Secondary School, Barbuda, ranging
in ages from 16 to 19, who participated in
this project.
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Long-term, the greenhouse
is self-supporting through
the growing and selling of “ornamental” plants, trees and
scrubs for local hotels, resorts and restaurants in Antigua
and the wider Caribbean.
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Ocean Caraibes always tries to include an “education
component” in their scoping reports, engineering studies and
projects as budgeting allows. This both educates and
involves the local community. Local school children and
university/community college students are preferably
utilized.
Environmental Education Component
With the assistance of John
Hopkins University, Virginia Tech University and Educators
for Connecting Research to the K-16 Classroom (ECRC), Ocean
Caraibes has successfully developed and implemented a series
of Marine Science and Environmental Educational Programs
and Teach Tanning Programs in the Caribbean over the
past five years.
An example
of our efforts:
Sand Trapping Fence
Project for USAID (Antigua & Barbuda)
The successful building of one
of the longest sand trapping fences in the Caribbean, (1,400
meters / 4,480.00 ft) along with the construction of a
green house plus, a beach monitoring program, all near the
Sir McChessney George Secondary School, Barbuda, is
an excellent example of how disaster preparedness,
biodiversity and local community and school system can work together.
The purpose of this project was
to protect the town
of Codrington from storm surge and swell
waves.
By helping in the construction
of the sand trapping fence, the students developed a strong
sense of ownership and educational awareness as to the
importance of sand dunes, habitat management and
restoration. As well, monitoring the progress of the sand
trapping fence and re-vegetation of the sand dunes by the
students has helped strengthen their understanding of the
role of science in the sustainable environmental management.
A greenhouse nursery,
constructed near the school, is producing indigenous plants,
trees and scrubs, “cover plants,” used for the project.
Working in the greenhouse provides the students the
opportunity to learn grafting techniques as well as
assisting in the growing and planting of the mangrove,
sea-grape and other seedlings for the reestablishment of the
nearby destroyed costal wetlands.
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