Student Opportunities

Scholarships

Special programs:

 

Check out the Conservancy’s Youth Nature Photo Contest: “A Green & Playful World”. It runs from January 9 through April 15, 2012 and has prizes!

2012 photo contest information

Apprentice Ecologist Initiative www.wildernessproject.org/volunteer_apprentice_ecologist.php
The Apprentice Ecologist Initiative™ (officially recognized by the U.S. EPA) has engaged tens of thousands of young people (kids, teens, and college-age youth) from around the world in environmental cleanup and conservation projects since 1999. This scholarship-based program has received multiple awards from the City of Albuquerque, a “Best Community Impact” award from Eastern Kentucky University, and is featured on thousands of web sites. View recent Apprentice Ecologist Projects and past Apprentice Ecologist Awards to get ideas for your own environmental stewardship project. The goals of the Apprentice Ecologist Initiative™ are to:

  • Elevate youth into leadership roles by engaging them in environmental cleanup and conservation projects,
  • Empower young people to rebuild the environmental and social well-being of our communities,
  • Improve local living conditions for both citizens and wildlife through education, activism, and action.

First Youth Camps Set for Summer

Total Outdoors will launch a pilot program of weekend fishing camps on Penns Creek beginning the weekend of 18 June 2011.  We are currently looking to recruit children (ages 10 to 17) from families of our Reserve Components and the Pennsylvania Army National Guard (PAARNG) and the Air National Guard (PAANG).
Total Outdoors is planning sixteen fishing camp weekends starting this summer.  Young outdoorsmen will learn the art of fly fishing, the science of aquatic life that are the primary source of trout food, and some basic skills in outdoors field studies. These classes will emphasize environmental preservation and conservation that is all part of the sport of angling, which is critical for any outdoors sportsman.


Total Outdoorswill provide all the equipment, instruction, supplies, meals and lodging for the weekend programs.  There will be no charge to any of the young sportsmen.