Educational Activities presented by the Pennsylvania Integrated Pest Management Program
Public events with The BugMobile! talking car and interactive IPM display
Educational activities--great opportunities for educators!
Jan. 20, 2008 - NIM interfaith service
Reaching a Milestone: 25th Annual Northwest Community Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration
Jan. 21, 2008 - MLK Day of Service at Germantown High School
Reduce Asthma
Protect your Family’s Health
Avoid Toxic Chemicals
Jan. 23, 2008 - 3:30-4:30PM, Hands-on IPM presentation to 4th graders at
Overbrook Elementary School
Feb.5, 2008 - 5:30PM Shaw Middle School, community and meet and greet the new President and CEO Terry Stacz of Edison Schools Inc.
Feb. 6, 2008 - "Good Bug, Bad Bug" presentation to 1st graders at West Philadelphia Achievement Charter Educational School
Feb. 7, 2008 – 12:30-2:00PM Healthy Start North Perinatal Providers Meeting
Feb. 12, 2008 – 8:30AM-4:30PM “IPM for Multi-Family Housing” training. Location: People’s Emergency Center, 325 N. 39th Street
Feb. 20, 2008 - 10:00AM-12:00noon - "Safer Spaces" presentation (AHEC/WHEN/PA IPM) Norris Square Child Care Center
Feb. 21, 2008 - "IPM: Pests, Pesticides and Health" presentation for EPA RSVP Volunteers
Location: EPA Region 3, 16th and Arch Streets, Philadelphia
Feb. 28-29, 2008 - PHENND "The Power of Place" Annual Conference
Feb. 29, 2008 - "Good Bug, Bad Bug" presentation to 1st graders at West Philadelphia Achievement Charter Educational School
March 3, 2008 – 8:00AM-3:00PM – CHOP Asthma Roundtable
March 4, 2008 - 6:00-8:00PM - "Safer Spaces" presentation (AHEC/WHEN/PA IPM)
March 5, 2008 - "Good Bug, Bad Bug" presentation to 1st graders at West Philadelphia Achievement Charter Educational School
March 7, 2008 - 1:30-3:30PM - "Safer Spaces" presentation (AHEC/WHEN/PA IPM)
March 13, 2008 - Fishing the Region: Water Quality and Fish Consumption in the Delaware Valley
March 19, 2008 – 6:15-8:15PM "Safer Spaces" presentation (AHEC/WHEN/PA IPM)
March 20, 2008 – 6:30-8:30PM "Safer Spaces" presentation (AHEC/WHEN/PA IPM)
March 27, 2008 - 10:30-11:30AM “IPM for Home Visitors and Social Workers”
March 27, 2008 - Green Roofs
March 29,2008 - "IPM: Getting Off the Pesticide Treadmill"
Location: The Rhodes Garden, North Wales, PA
Contact for more information: Judith Gratz, Wissahickon Valley Watershed Assoc., Environmental Education Director, (215) 646-8866
April 10, 2008 - Energy: The Burning Issue
Mike Weilbacher, Lower Marion Conservancy, Introduced by: Dennis Burton
Location: Schulykill Center for Environmental Education
Contact: Camila Rivera-Tinsley (215) 482-7300 ext.122
April 21, 2008 – Earth Day at Overbrook Elementary School
April 22, 2008 - EPA Earth Day
Contact for more information: Betty Ringkamp (215) 814-5663
April 24, 2008 - Philadelphia’s Amphibian Residents
April 25, 2008 – 1:00-3:00PM "Safer Spaces" presentation (AHEC/WHEN/PA IPM)
April 24, 2008 - "IPM for Women, Infants and Children"
Location: Quarterly Philadelphia WIC Employee Conference
April 28-May 2 - National Healthy Schools Week
May 6, 2008 World Asthma Day, presented by Asthma Care Committee
May 8, 2008 - Climate Change: Do New York City and the Eastern Seaboard have a Watery Future?
May 10, 2008 - Northeast Child Care Professionals Conference
Location: Holy Family University College Center 9801 Frankford Avenue
May 22, 2008 - Pollinators and the Great Green Bounty
May 30, 2008 - PA Heritage Day at Hempfield Area School District. PA IPM presentation for local 4th grade students.
June 2, 2008 - "Safer Spaces" 5:00 - 7:00 PM
June 7th, 2008 - Toxins in Our Midst: Breast Cancer and the Environment
Location: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Buemle Life Sciences Building
233 South 10th Street (10th and Locust)
June 14, 2008 – 9:00AM-3:00PM Household Hazardous Waste drop-off
June 19, 2008 Asthma Champions Conference
June 21, 2008 – 11:00AM-7:00PM
June 23-26, 2008 - Bug Camp for Kids. For more information visit http://www.ento.psu.edu/scied/BugCamp.html
July 13-18, 2008 - Ag in the Classroom workshop series presented by the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau at Penn State University campus.
July 14, 2008 - IPM Presentation
EPA Region III
July 15, 2008 The PA IPM program will be at the Boalsburg Farmers market in Boalsburg, PA from 2-6pm.
July 16, 2008 - The PA IPM program will be at the Aaronsburg Area Public Library for an evening presentation on insects and IPM in support of this year’s reading theme, “Catch the Reading Bug.”
July 21, 2008 - 10:00-11:30AM “Good Bugs, Bad Bugs” Presentation at Gaudenzia
July 22, 2008 - The PA IPM program will be at the Priestly-Forsyth Memorial Library in Northumberland, PA for an outreach program.
July 24, 2008 – 9:00AM-3:00PM Household Hazardous Waste drop-off
July 26, 2008 – 11:00AM-3:00PM Belmont Health Awareness and Youth Activities Day and Household Hazardous Waste and Toxics Exchange
July 26, 2008 - The PA IPM program will be in Philadelphia for the 8th Annual Health Fair planned by the Abundant Life Healing Fellowship Church.
July 27-August 1, 2008 - The Pennsylvania Department of Education will be hosting The Governor’s Institute for Environment and Ecology at the Seven Springs Resort. The PA IPM will be delivering a teacher’s workshop on IPM during one of the sessions.
August 5, 2008 - 6:30-8:30PM "Safer Spaces" presentation (AHEC/WHEN/PA IPM)
August 7, 2008 - 9:30-12:30 4 hour IPM Training for child care facility directors
August 13, 2008 - 11:00-3:00 IPM display table at the farmer's market at City Hall
August 26, 2008 - 3:00-5:00 "Safer Spaces" presentation (AHEC/WHEN/PA IPM)
September 7, 2008 - 11:00AM-6:00PM Green Fest Philly
September 13, 2008 – 9:00AM-3:00PM Household Hazardous Waste drop-off
September 13, 2008 - 9:00AM-3:00PM Household Hazardous Waste drop-off
Monday, September 15th, 12:00-2:30 Part 1: “In Sickness and in Wealth”
Clara Cohen Hall (formerly Logan Hall), the Terrace Room
rsvp: cphi@pobox.upenn.edu
September 15-17, 2008 National Healthy Homes Conference
Location: Baltimore Hilton, Maryland
September 18-19, 2008 - The 6TH Annual Conference on Children's Health and the Environment
University of Pennsylvania's Perelman Quad, Philadelphia, PA.
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: for the 6th Annual Conference on Children's Health and the Environment.
September 26, 2008 - 10:00AM-2:30PM The Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Health Awareness Fair, 4148 Lancaster Ave.
Contact: Ronald Allen III 215-578-3319
October 3, 2008 - Health Care Without Harm - Nursing Faculty Development Program, Villonova University
October 4, 2008 - 9:00AM-3:00PM Household Hazardous Waste drop-off
October 4, 2008 - Great Insect Fair at Penn State University main campus at the Agricultural Arena.
November 1, 2008 - 9:00AM-3:00PM Household Hazardous Waste drop-off
December 4-6, 2008 - 9th Annual Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools National Symposium
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hosts its annual Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools (IAQ TfS) National Symposium in Washington, DC, to bring together past, present and future leaders in protecting and improving IAQ in our nation’s schools.
Registration for the 9th Annual IAQ Tools for Schools National Symposium is now open! Click here to register.
Registration for the 9th Annual IAQ Tools for Schools National Symposium is now open! Click here to register.