High School Education Program: River KATS: Kid Activism Together with Science

Thank you to our generous supporters of the 2011-2012 River KATS program including the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, and the Northrop Grumman Employees Charity Organization. These gifts will help us continue this valuable, free educational program for inland high school students. We are always in need of corporate funding to expand the program. River KATS is designed to introduce high school students to watershed concepts with in-class presentations and field trips at NO cost to schools. To find out more, click here.

High School Education Program: Watershed Career Network

Waterkeeper is excited to announce its new Watershed Career Network; a program designed to promote environmental career development between students at underserved high schools within our watershed region, encompassing Riverside and San Bernardino County School Districts and environmental professionals of the Inland Empire. Thanks to initial funding from the Wells Fargo Foundation, Waterkeeper coordinated with local environmental professionals from various organizations such as local science-based public agencies, environmental or engineering consulting firms, law firms, resource conservation districts, and nature reserves to conduct in-class presentations to local high school science and AVID classrooms over the 2010-2011 school year. Presentations from environmental professionals will be key to introducing students and educators to local environmental issues and actions they can take to make a difference. We are currently looking for funding for the 2011-2012 school year!! Please contact Programs Director, Rachael Hamilton at rachael@iewaterkeeper.org if you are an interested teacher, environmental professional, or potential funder!

Secchi Disk Dip In At Prado Lakes

Inland Empire Waterkeeper was pleased to partner with the International Baccalaureate program at Raney Intermediate School in Corona to perform turbidity measurements with a real Secchi disk in our Waterkeeper canoe at Prado Park Lake! This event was made possible through a generous donation from Malcolm Pirnie, Inc. See photos and sampling results from the event, held July 10, 2008.

Snapshot Day

In honor of Water Awareness Month, citizen water monitors located all over the country take samples of local creeks each May and compare results from previous years to “snapshot” the water quality. In May of 2006, Inland Empire Waterkeeper facilitated a Snapshot Day event where 16 sites were sampled. We repeated many of those same sites this year on May 10, 2008 with the help of two groups of high school students from La Sierra High School (LSHS Alvord
Unified School District) and King High School (KHS Riverside Unified School District). Click here to read the entire report and results.

For more information about our educational programs, please contact Program Manager Rachael Hamilton at (951) 530-8823