DEM, URI URBAN FIELD CENTER HOST ENVIRONMENTAL SUMMER PROGRAM FOR CITY YOUTH

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RI Department of Environmental Management
235 Promenade Street, Providence, RI 02908
(401) 222-2771 TDD/(401) 222-4462

Editors: For local photo opportunities see attached*
For Release:	July 19, 2002
Contact:	Gail Mastrati 222-4700 ext. 2402 Stephanie Powell 222-4700 ext. 4418

DEM, URI URBAN FIELD CENTER HOST ENVIRONMENTAL SUMMER PROGRAM FOR CITY YOUTH

PROVIDENCE - Thirty-five elementary school students from Pawtucket will be taking daily environmental field trips throughout southern New England during the next two weeks. For many students, it will be the first time they have seen the ocean, visited a farm, or hiked through a forest. All are entering the fifth grade at the Cunningham and Baldwin Elementary Schools.

Staff members from the Department of Environmental Management are among those who will help students from the Project Discovery summer institute explore their natural surroundings. Students will view the life stages of fish at a fish hatchery and have a fishing lesson with Jennifer Temple of the Division of Fish and Wildlife. Paul Dolan of the Division of Forest Environment will be the tour guide for an educational walk in the forest. Students will learn about egg and produce farming on visits to two farms with Ron Newman of the Division of Agriculture and Resource Marketing.

The students will also be visiting the New Bedford Whaling Museum, the Rose Island Lighthouse and the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, among other activities, during the two-week session that runs from July 22 through August 2.

The Project Discovery summer institute is run by the University of Rhode Island's Urban Field Center in collaboration with the Department of Environmental Management, with financial support from the Pawtucket school system. Now in its seventh year as a collaborative project, the 16-year-old institute is designed to motivate the students to study math and science and to see themselves as college material. The overall goal is to show that science and math are important in the everyday world, and to introduce the students to people who work in interesting fields where those subjects are necessary.

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Local Photo Opportunities:

Pawtucket Monday, July 22 2 p.m.	Students will participate in a tree planting ceremony at Donohue Park, at the corner of Rhode Island Street and Pond Street. On site contacts: Paul Dolan of DEM's Division of Forest Environment and Carrie Lamidi of Project Discovery.
Glocester Tuesday, July 23 10:30 a.m. - noon	Students will be taken on a guided walk in the forest at Pulaski Park on Route 44. On site contacts: Paul Dolan of DEM's Division of Forest Environment and Carrie Lamidi of Project Discovery.
Foster Friday, July 26 10 a.m. - 11 a.m.	Students will tour Little Rhody Egg Farm at 73 Cucumber Hill Road. On site contacts: Ron Newman of DEM's Division of Agriculture and Carrie Lamidi of Project Discovery.
Exeter Friday, July 26 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m.	Students will tour Schartner Farms on Route 2. On site contacts: Ron Newman of DEM's Division of Agriculture and Carrie Lamidi of Project Discovery.
Richmond Tuesday, July 30 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.	As part of a fishing program, students will tour DEM's Carolina Trout Hatchery at 13 Old Richmond Town House Road (off Route 112). On site contacts: Jennifer Temple of DEM's Division of Fish and Wildlife and Carrie Lamidi of Project Discovery.

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