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My students need support in covering the cost of our trip to Maine in the fall. We'll be traveling by coach bus to Rockland, Maine, and then 8 mi. by boat to Hurricane Island!
I teach highly motivated, inquisitive students at one of the largest schools in our state, and yet these students do not always have access to opportunities or resources that they deserve.
Our students are hard-working, eager to learn, high achieving individuals.
The school is located in a very diverse region of the city, and therefore, our students speak many different languages and come from many different countries. The school building is overcrowded, under-funded and in considerable need of an overhaul, as much of its interior has not been updated for fifty years.
My Project
The students who will be attending this trip are going to be introduced to field scientists that work on Hurricane Island. In order to meet one of the requirements of their rigorous academic program they will first learn about Hurricane Island sustainable technology, geology, botany, ornithology, fresh water, and marine ecology environments. Students will then design an experiment around questions they generate from the first few days of discovery, and Hurricane Island Foundation staff and school faculty will help facilitate their experimental design ideas, materials needed, and study site identification. Students will collaborate to design a comparative, baseline, or other study.
My hope is that some students will return home from this trip with a mindset that sees the future as ripe with possibilities.
I know that each of them is going to make a significant difference in their communities as an adult, and I see this trip as a way to foster that mentality in them. I want them to become innovators and changemakers and believe that each of them has that potential.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
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