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G.I. Senior High School students will assist at Children's Groundwater Festival
Grand Island Senior High School students enrolled in environmental science classes will assist elementary school students attending the Nebraska Children's Groundwater Festival on May 11 at College Park and Central Community College in Grand Island.
"Grand Island Senior High School students will be informing fourth- and fifth-graders from all around Nebraska about groundwater, water pollution, water uses, and the history of water in Nebraska," said Grant Boyer, a high school environmental science teacher.
"This is a great opportunity for our students of environmental science to share what they have learned and to also prepare the next generation to take care of our natural resources," said Lacey Westerby, who also teaches environmental science at the high school.
This is the fourth year that high school students taking environmental science have helped at the Children's Groundwater Festival, the teachers said. Westerby teaches six sections of environmental science, and Boyer teaches two sections of environmental science. Approximately four students from each environmental science class section will help at the Children's Groundwater Festival, said high school student Kaitlin Thornton.
Most of the students who take environmental science are juniors, but sophomores and seniors are also enrolled in the course, Westerby said.
The Central Platte Natural Resources District is coordinating the 22nd annual Children's Groundwater Festival. Approximately 1,000 students from 25 Nebraska communities attended the event last year, according to its Web site, www.cpnrd.org/GW%20Festival.htm. Approximately 150 volunteers assisted with the event a year ago.
For more information, contact: Lacey Westerby, Science Teacher, Grand Island Senior High School, 2124 N. Lafayette Ave., (308) 385-5950, lwesterb@gips.org; Grant Boyer, Science Teacher, Grand Island Senior High School, 2124 N. Lafayette Ave., (308) 385-5950, gboyer@gips.org
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