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Earthwatch Teen Teams Recruiting Now
Dear Earthwatcher,
As the world faces extraordinary challenges, a new generation is stepping up as leaders of change. Earthwatch’s Teen Teams give 16 and 17 year-olds a chance to take part and become the environmental leaders of the 21st century.
More than 15 Teen Team expeditions to the world’s most beautiful and endangered areas empower teens to make a difference, to help save species, habitats, and cultures--not just see them as tourists or students on a standard field trip would do.
Guided by trained, experienced field researchers and Facilitators, Teen Teams get to:
* do something that really matters during school vacations and summer break
* be mentored and inspired by famous scientists and rising graduate student researchers
* fulfill community service or winter term requirements, and get great material for application essays
* learn field science and archaeology skills on more than 15 projects in 11 countries worldwide.
With nearly 40 years of respected expertise in leading field expeditions, Earthwatch provides the key resources that teens, their parents, and their teachers need.
If you’re interested in helping teens become the leaders we need, email us or call 800-776-0188 for more information. Teen Teams for the summer of 2009 and beyond are booking now, and spaces are limited.
If you’ve gone on an expedition, you know the life-changing experience in store for any volunteer. Consider the gift of a Teen Team Expedition as a 16th or 17th birthday gift for the teens in your life—a gift that will literally mean the world to them. You can also set up an Expedition Fund in a special teen’s name and get others to contribute.
Check out some of the things the teens in your life can get up to this summer with Earthwatch:
Kayaking the waters off British Columbia to study grey whales in their summer feeding areas
Hiking through Madagascar’s forests studying a mysterious predator, the endangered fossa
Saving a tropical rainforest in Puerto Rico—and all the creatures there—through sustainable forestry studies
Wading through Barnegat Bay to protect diamondback terrapins
It’s their world—and it’s waiting for them.
P.S. Earthwatch also offers competitive grants for teachers and students. Email us or call 1-800-776-0188 x265 for more information.
As the world faces extraordinary challenges, a new generation is stepping up as leaders of change. Earthwatch’s Teen Teams give 16 and 17 year-olds a chance to take part and become the environmental leaders of the 21st century.
More than 15 Teen Team expeditions to the world’s most beautiful and endangered areas empower teens to make a difference, to help save species, habitats, and cultures--not just see them as tourists or students on a standard field trip would do.
Guided by trained, experienced field researchers and Facilitators, Teen Teams get to:
* do something that really matters during school vacations and summer break
* be mentored and inspired by famous scientists and rising graduate student researchers
* fulfill community service or winter term requirements, and get great material for application essays
* learn field science and archaeology skills on more than 15 projects in 11 countries worldwide.
With nearly 40 years of respected expertise in leading field expeditions, Earthwatch provides the key resources that teens, their parents, and their teachers need.
If you’re interested in helping teens become the leaders we need, email us or call 800-776-0188 for more information. Teen Teams for the summer of 2009 and beyond are booking now, and spaces are limited.
If you’ve gone on an expedition, you know the life-changing experience in store for any volunteer. Consider the gift of a Teen Team Expedition as a 16th or 17th birthday gift for the teens in your life—a gift that will literally mean the world to them. You can also set up an Expedition Fund in a special teen’s name and get others to contribute.
Check out some of the things the teens in your life can get up to this summer with Earthwatch:
Kayaking the waters off British Columbia to study grey whales in their summer feeding areas
Hiking through Madagascar’s forests studying a mysterious predator, the endangered fossa
Saving a tropical rainforest in Puerto Rico—and all the creatures there—through sustainable forestry studies
Wading through Barnegat Bay to protect diamondback terrapins
It’s their world—and it’s waiting for them.
P.S. Earthwatch also offers competitive grants for teachers and students. Email us or call 1-800-776-0188 x265 for more information.
Earthwatch
The new 2009 Expedition Guide is here!
There are research projects you can join, running in 30 countries worldwide, working on climate change, ocean health, threatened natural resources and cultures. Want to take a look at them all online right now? Just go here:
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Prefer to leaf through our new printed Guide? Just go here and request your free Guide today!
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There are research projects you can join, running in 30 countries worldwide, working on climate change, ocean health, threatened natural resources and cultures. Want to take a look at them all online right now? Just go here:
view link
Prefer to leaf through our new printed Guide? Just go here and request your free Guide today!
view link
New teen team blog from Africa
This is a teen team that will be on the project in a few days. They won't have full internet access, but they hope to put something up every couple days: view link
Teen team quote and 2009 signup
The father of one of our teen team members just sent us this great note:
"My son...returned from his Costa Rica monkeys teen expedition a few weeks ago. He loved it. Everything about it was great. Earthwatch was fantastic about organization, and making sure that everything went smoothly. Tracie (the researcher) and Nancie (the other adult) were fabulous. Mickey was inspired. He wants to lead Earthwatch trips some day. It was one of the best experiences Mickey has ever had. From the point where the teens got to contact each other and Tracie by e-mail, through the coordination over flight delays, to bringing the kids to the airport to go home, Earthwatch has been a paragon of organization, efficiency, courtesy, and caring.
"Although I did not go on the trip, I would like to say that from my perspective as a parent, Earthwatch was fantastic. I would highly recommend it to any parent whose teen is considering any of your expeditions."
Our Field Operations group works very hard to make sure that our teen and SCAP teams are fun, interesting, safe, and provide the same research experience as our adult teams. It's great to hear that they've done so well :)
Our teen teams for this summer are all full, but we're already signing teens up for 2 of next summer's dozen or so teams:
Climate Change at the Arctic's Edge, Aug 1 - 11, 2009, in Churchill, Manitoba. This is a GREAT project, compiling critical climate change data - and it's an amazing place to be! We don't have a 2009 page yet - here's the 2008 page: view link
Roman Fort on Tyne, July 12 - 25, 2009, in South Shields, England. This is a serious archaeology project, unearthing a very large settlement from the first century A.D. - this project doesn't have a teen page yet - here's the 2008 adult project page: view link
If you're interested in going on a teen team next summer, give us a call at 800-776-0188, or send an email to info@earthwatch.org.
"My son...returned from his Costa Rica monkeys teen expedition a few weeks ago. He loved it. Everything about it was great. Earthwatch was fantastic about organization, and making sure that everything went smoothly. Tracie (the researcher) and Nancie (the other adult) were fabulous. Mickey was inspired. He wants to lead Earthwatch trips some day. It was one of the best experiences Mickey has ever had. From the point where the teens got to contact each other and Tracie by e-mail, through the coordination over flight delays, to bringing the kids to the airport to go home, Earthwatch has been a paragon of organization, efficiency, courtesy, and caring.
"Although I did not go on the trip, I would like to say that from my perspective as a parent, Earthwatch was fantastic. I would highly recommend it to any parent whose teen is considering any of your expeditions."
Our Field Operations group works very hard to make sure that our teen and SCAP teams are fun, interesting, safe, and provide the same research experience as our adult teams. It's great to hear that they've done so well :)
Our teen teams for this summer are all full, but we're already signing teens up for 2 of next summer's dozen or so teams:
Climate Change at the Arctic's Edge, Aug 1 - 11, 2009, in Churchill, Manitoba. This is a GREAT project, compiling critical climate change data - and it's an amazing place to be! We don't have a 2009 page yet - here's the 2008 page: view link
Roman Fort on Tyne, July 12 - 25, 2009, in South Shields, England. This is a serious archaeology project, unearthing a very large settlement from the first century A.D. - this project doesn't have a teen page yet - here's the 2008 adult project page: view link
If you're interested in going on a teen team next summer, give us a call at 800-776-0188, or send an email to info@earthwatch.org.
Iceland SCAP team heading out!
I saw Eric Lundquist at Earthwatch today - he's getting ready to go to Iceland with the SCAP team. I told him we want him to bring back lots of photos and videos of people using all of the cool electronic gear Dr. Russell brings to survey the area.
Eric's been to Iceland before, and he says its the closest he's come to feeling like he's on another planet. Should be an amazing project.
If you're going - take photos, take video, interview your team members and the staff. Almost all of our YouTube videos and website photos are taken by volunteers, and if we use your still or video, we'll put your name on it - and thousands of people will see it!
Eric isn't sure there'll be much Internet access onsite, so I hope everyone will keep a journal and write up their adventure when they get home - people love to read about life on our expeditions - we get LOTS of hits on the blogs we link to our site.
If you're not going on a teen team or a SCAP team this summer, you can still look at the teen teams we have next year, or think about asking a teacher to nominate you for a SCAP grant for next summer.
Kathy, the Earthwatch webmaster.
Eric's been to Iceland before, and he says its the closest he's come to feeling like he's on another planet. Should be an amazing project.
If you're going - take photos, take video, interview your team members and the staff. Almost all of our YouTube videos and website photos are taken by volunteers, and if we use your still or video, we'll put your name on it - and thousands of people will see it!
Eric isn't sure there'll be much Internet access onsite, so I hope everyone will keep a journal and write up their adventure when they get home - people love to read about life on our expeditions - we get LOTS of hits on the blogs we link to our site.
If you're not going on a teen team or a SCAP team this summer, you can still look at the teen teams we have next year, or think about asking a teacher to nominate you for a SCAP grant for next summer.
Kathy, the Earthwatch webmaster.
Current SCAP team blog
This is a blog from a student on a SCAP team in Virginia right now:
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SCAP stands for Student Challenge Awards Programs - a grant program for high school students to go on special Earthwatch projects.
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SCAP stands for Student Challenge Awards Programs - a grant program for high school students to go on special Earthwatch projects.
Ways for teens to volunteer with Earthwatch
There are several ways for teens to go on Earthwatch expeditions:
- Join a teen team - they're just like the standard teams, but they're exclusively for 16 and 17 year-olds, and Earthwatch sends an extra facilitator to make sure everyone has a good time and a good experience: view link
- Go with a teen group - many high schools and other teen organizations put together teen/adult groups to go on an expedition. There are some special discounts, depending on the size of the group and the expedition: view link
- Apply for a Student Challenge Award Program (SCAP) grant. SCAP teams are special, summer projects for students who will be starting their junior or senior year of high school. These teams are fully funded by our donors: view link
- Go on a family team - special teams for parents and their children, with varying minimum ages, from 10 to 13. These teams have half a day of work, and half a day of local activities: view link
- Go on an adult team with a parent or guardian. Some of our expeditions allow a limited number of 16 and 17 year olds to join a team when accompanied by an adult.
Scientists find that high school students make excellent researchers, and have the sense of adventure that makes expeditions fun.
I've been on two projects with 16 and 17 year-olds, and they had a great time and enjoyed being treated just like any other volunteers. And their willingness to enjoy whatever happens makes the whole team have more fun - whether it's learning to dance the samba, running fully clothed under a cold-water geyser, or crawling through the rainforest to find tiny newborn coqui frogs.
Kathy, the Earthwatch webmaster
- Join a teen team - they're just like the standard teams, but they're exclusively for 16 and 17 year-olds, and Earthwatch sends an extra facilitator to make sure everyone has a good time and a good experience: view link
- Go with a teen group - many high schools and other teen organizations put together teen/adult groups to go on an expedition. There are some special discounts, depending on the size of the group and the expedition: view link
- Apply for a Student Challenge Award Program (SCAP) grant. SCAP teams are special, summer projects for students who will be starting their junior or senior year of high school. These teams are fully funded by our donors: view link
- Go on a family team - special teams for parents and their children, with varying minimum ages, from 10 to 13. These teams have half a day of work, and half a day of local activities: view link
- Go on an adult team with a parent or guardian. Some of our expeditions allow a limited number of 16 and 17 year olds to join a team when accompanied by an adult.
Scientists find that high school students make excellent researchers, and have the sense of adventure that makes expeditions fun.
I've been on two projects with 16 and 17 year-olds, and they had a great time and enjoyed being treated just like any other volunteers. And their willingness to enjoy whatever happens makes the whole team have more fun - whether it's learning to dance the samba, running fully clothed under a cold-water geyser, or crawling through the rainforest to find tiny newborn coqui frogs.
Kathy, the Earthwatch webmaster
