Maritime Aquarium
Darien Students Eligible for Environmental Education Program at Maritime Aquarium
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Nearly 2,000 students from 10 Fairfield County towns will explore how severe storms, erosion and other environmental hazards threaten their communities — and also how they can participate in lessening the effects — thanks to a three-year, $484,955 federal grant to The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk. ______________
— an announcement from the Maritime Aquarium
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The grant, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the U.S. Department of Commerce, is the largest federal award received in The Maritime Aquarium’s 28 years. It will fund an initiative called “Sound Resilience – Get On Board!” Over the next three years, The Maritime Aquarium will use the grant to involve as many as 1,875 middle- and high-school students in Greenwich, Stamford, New Canaan, Darien, Norwalk, Westport, Wilton, Weston, Fairfield and Bridgeport. Education and research will occur in school classrooms and also aboard the Aquarium’s hybrid-electric research vessel, R/V Spirit of the Sound™. In addition, professional-development workshops will benefit more than 150 teachers from those towns.