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Roger City High School welding and woodshop instructor Mandy Munger is getting her students involved in the local community through placed based education.
Rogers City students are working to enhance the habitat of Michigan’s areal migrants at Thompson’s Harbor State Park. Woodworking students partnered with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources through the Northeast Michigan Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative network.
Students designed and built blue bird houses to place at Thompson’s Harbor State Park. These more...
Blue Bird House
Courtesy of North American Bluebird Society
Your school, your community organization, and YOU are invited to join and participate in the annual, youth education-focused Northeast Michigan Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative Regional Network Meeting on Wednesday, February 13, 2019 hosted in Alpena, Michigan. Click here to get registered!
The Northeast Michigan Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative (NEMIGLSI) strives to build vibrant, sustainable communities committed to empowering young people as environmental leaders and social entrepreneurs. The NEMIGLSI network achieves this vision by: facilitating school-community partnerships; funding innovative, collaborative student-driven projects; providing targeted training opportunities for students and teachers; and coordinating communities of learning. Collectively, these efforts extend the classroom outside school walls and into the exquisite natural and cultural landscape of Northeast Michigan. Click here to learn more about existing place-based stewardship education efforts!
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In partnership with University of Notre Dame student, Zoe Rae Rote, Michigan State University Extension, and Michigan Sea Grant, the NEMIGLSI network recently published a report on the student perspective of place-based education in Alpena County. These students found value in connecting with their communities, engaging in hands-on learning, exploring future careers paths, and simply having fun!
This page last updated on 1/14/2019.
Northeast Michigan GLSI network programs and materials are open to all without regard to race, color, national or ethnic origin, gender, gender identity, religion, age, height, weight, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, or veteran status.
