After learning hands-on about pplanting Douglas-fir seedlings, students took them home to plant with their families, as well as an instruction cards with information about the state tree and Oregon’s forests.
Oregon Sea Grant Extension and the Oregon Coast STEM Hub selected students and high-school teachers to join a three-day Oregon State University research cruise.
The OSU Extension Service Outdoor School Program, created in 2017, crafted the program’s mission and vision, which is grounded in equity, diversity, access and inclusion.
Sixth graders were joined by the seventh and eighth grade students who weren’t able to attend during the pandemic at the Oregon Department of Forestry demonstration forest and arboretum.
In the summer of 2022, 4-H partnered with the Mount St Helens Institute to hold an Inner City Youth Institute overnight camp at the Mount St. Helens Science and Learning Center.
Over 900 students in second through eighth grades and 100 adult chaperones in Clackamas County attended an enrichment program at the Hopkins Demonstration Forest during the summer and several other groups came in early fall.
