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EDUCATION: Teachers' guides; tailored field trips; educational programs; Center tours; career days; Saturday Science Academy; Science by Mail; Science Olympiad
COMMUNITY: Conference room for meetings; speakers' bureau; Environmental Law Institute Conference
SPECIAL EVENTS: Acadiana Migratory Bird Week; Open House; Deep South Writers Conference - Nature Writing Wetlands Month (Nature into Art, Newspapers in Education)
PROGRAMS: Caddo Lake Institute (classroom teaching and demonstration; multimedia development; publications); Earth Stewards, training of teachers, school adoption
EARTH DAY: EarthFest, New Orleans; Earth Day, Baton Rouge (3rd largest in Nation: 85,000); CenLA, Alexandria
EMPLOYMENT: Internships; mentorships; volunteer work
ACADEMIA: Seminar series twice a month; Summer Science Teacher's Institute with University of Southwestern Louisiana; two universities now developing media and technical writing classes with Center
INFORMATION: Library services and special collection for teachers; Publications (e.g., Fragile Fringe, Willful Winds, Restless Ribbons, Web of Life); homepage (http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov)
THE ARTS: Technical assistance to choreography for group visiting schools to depict wetlands; maps used for sculpture in Atlanta Airport; students make videos
EXHIBITS: Fragile Fringe with teachers' guide, booklet, handouts
PRESS: Regular contacts; news releases, press conferences; annual Science and the Media
PARTNERSHIPS: Homepage development and serving: Federal and State Task Force, Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act; Society of Wetland Scientists; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Sandhill Crane Refuge; Gulf of Mexico Program (EPA) committees
WORKSHOPS: Spatial analysis workshops for teachers; metadata workshops for various audiences
INREACH: Employee Organization, FOSSCL, sponsors: recycling, parties, flowers, T-shirts and hats, lunches, seminar refreshments, Thanksgiving Day, Halloween Contest
SERVICE: March of Dimes WalkAmerica; Combined Federal Campaign, Blood Drive; Salvation Army Angel Tree
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