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Bridging the Watershed Purpose:
The BTW purpose is to promote promote student academic achievement, personal connections with the natural world, lifelong civic engagement, and environmental stewardship through hands-on curriculum-based outdoor studies in national parks and public lands.
Program History:
BTW was developed in 1998 through a grant from the National Park Foundation as a model education program in the District of Columbia metropolitan area for an underserved population in national parks: high school students. It is the hope of BTW partners that this model, already spreading throughout the Potomac watershed, will be replicated in other national parks to serve high school students in any watershed. Using national parks as living laboratories to support national, state, and local science and math education standards, students increase awareness and understanding of the Potomac watershed. This education and heightened awareness will hopefully lead them to become future stewards of national parks and the environment.
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