Welcome to "Envi Sci", a unique summer program that lets students explore the wilderness and learn about the environment!The Envi Sci Program is based at Bowen Elementary School.
Our students have fun hiking, biking, canoeing, and more. The last three days of the Program are dedicated to a back-packing trip to Mt. Washington, the highest peak in the northeast. We take approximately 35 students who will be entering grades 7, 8, 9, or 10 in September.
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Highlights of the program include hikes in Massachusetts and New Hampshire such as the Blue Hills and Mount Monadnock, bicycle trips, a 12-mile canoe trip on the Charles River, and an expedition through the salt marshes of the North shore near Gloucester. The program ends with an exhilarating three-day backpacking trip up the highest peak in the Northeast, Mount Washington.
The program centers around the idea that students learn best about their surroundings when taught by other students in the specific environment. Leaders design and develop the science workshops to teach the students during daily hiking or biking trips. Workshops cover topics such as geology, botany, ecology, water cycle, pollution issues, and conservation.
Each year there is an environmental cleanup project in which participants get hands-on involvement with improving an environmental site.
The program began as a Ford Foundation Project in 1967 headed by a Newton science teacher, and has continued for many years as part of the Newton Conservation Commission. We take about 35 students who will be going into grades 7 through 10. New students are encouraged to return and become leaders in subsequent years, continuing the thread of responsibility for care and teaching about the environment.
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Wonderful way to spend the summer
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on Apr/24/2016 by Julia Saukkonen
I joined Envi Sci many years ago as a student. While at the program, I made a group of friends that became like family, and we still keep in touch (I'm even working alongside some of them now.) The camp's leaders were knowledgable and well-trained, as well as incredibly supportive and friendly. The trips we took were fun as well as educational, and I got the opportunity to get a closer look at the environment around me. I found myself identifying plants even outside the program, evaluating ecosystems and most importantly discovered a desire to learn more and more. The Mount Washington trip is definitely a highlight of the experience at Envi Sci- we get to explore a completely different ecosystem, build trust, and get some great exercise along the way.
While the Newton Environmental Science Camp is certainly dedicated to teaching about environmental sciences, I found that the passion in each and every person involved in the program- students and leaders alike- was what kept me coming back year after year. I am not an environmental science major, but I find that my interest in parks, community, and the environment drives me to explore and even relate it to my own work even today as I pursue a film and television production degree.
I have come out of this program a much more confident, educated and passionate person, and would highly recommend this program.
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I joined Envi Sci many years ago as a student. While at the program, I made a group of friends that became like family, and we still keep in touch (I'm even working alongside some of them now.) The camp's leaders were knowledgable and well-trained, as well as incredibly supportive and friendly. The trips we took were fun as well as educational, and I got the opportunity to get a closer look at the environment around me. I found myself identifying plants even outside the program, evaluating ecosystems and most importantly discovered a desire to learn more and more. The Mount Washington trip is definitely a highlight of the experience at Envi Sci- we get to explore a completely different ecosystem, build trust, and get some great exercise along the way.
While the Newton Environmental Science Camp is certainly dedicated to teaching about environmental sciences, I found that the passion in each and every person involved in the program- students and leaders alike- was what kept me coming back year after year. I am not an environmental science major, but I find that my interest in parks, community, and the environment drives me to explore and even relate it to my own work even today as I pursue a film and television production degree.
I have come out of this program a much more confident, educated and passionate person, and would highly recommend this program.