Residential Summer Workshop: Our annual residential Summer Workshop focuses on developing youth as citizen stewards. This Summer Workshop changes venue each year and brings all active teams together in a hosting team’s community for a weeklong program. At the Workshop youth hone public speaking and civic engagement skills, develop friendships across geographic and political boundaries, report on their work back home, attend lectures and seminars on related Gulf of Maine watershed issues and join field based themes to investigate specific aspects of the host team’s environment. The Workshop includes a well-developed curriculum and is staffed by exceptionally qualified volunteers from the scientific, educational, and environmental communities throughout the watershed. Active teams include Tantramar Wetlands Sackville, New Brunswick team, Queens North, Barrington, Shelburne and Digby/Islands Nova Scotia teams; Concord and Laconia teams New Hampshire teams and Chelsea, Concord, Essex, and Newburyport, Massachusetts teams. For more information on these teams and they work they are doing in their home community please go to our blog www.gulfofmaineinstitute.com.
School-based Teacher Initiative: Over the past several years, with grant support form the Jessie B. Cox Charitable Foundation and the US EPA, GOMI has developed a model program for training professionals in place-based education. In partnership with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Parker River National Refuge and the Newburyport Public Schools the model is being introduced the Nock Middle School and Newburyport High School September, 2001.