Thanks to a teacher scholarship from MAEE, I was able to attend a wonderful workshop at the Cannon River STEM School in Faribault on Friday.
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Thanks to a teacher scholarship from MAEE, I was able to attend a wonderful workshop at the Cannon River STEM School in Faribault on Friday.
We are proud to announce the 2018 MAEE Annual Conference — Making Connections.
It was an idyllic autumn day when fellow MAEE board member, River Ostrow, and I set off from St. Paul, MN to the regional Midwest Environmental Education Conference in St. Charles, IL. Hosted by the Environmental Education Association of Illinois (www.eeai.net), this year’s conference theme was “Live in the Now, Focus on the Future”. We saw that theme in action through workshops, education sessions, field trips, and featured speakers.
By: Molly Phipps, MAEE Board Member At the end of July, we hosted our 25th Anniversary Conference at Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center in Finland, MN. Our theme this year “Speaking Loudly and Acting Boldly for Natural Spaces” focused on what we can do to enact positive change for our environment and environmental education, even as …
By Guest Blogger: Bailey Stanard As a part time interpretive naturalist sitting in the warm office of my full time job while my naturalist coworkers get to explore the great outdoors this week, I find myself a little less envious than on a warm spring day. Being a Minnesotan all my life, I would think I …
By: Jennifer Elsen I attended the North American Association for Environmental Education conference in Madison, Wisconsin, October 19th-October 21st. It was held at the beautiful waterfront convention center designed by Frank Lloyd Wright on Lake Monona. When I arrived early morning at the center, I was first drawn to the sunlight coming over the lake …
By Conference Scholarship Recipient Dan Gruhlke, Pinewood Elementary School, Monticello, MN Saturday, August 6, 2016 was a beautiful morning for this year’s MAEE “Grow in the Open” Conference with a clear sky, little wind, temp.’s just under the averages, and low humidity! I wish I could’ve only bicycled to the Conference as I had desired, and that was probably my biggest …
School gardens are alive and well in Minnesota! With a packed house of over 350 attendees, the 4th annual Minnesota Schoolyard Garden Conference was a success. Teachers, parents, administrators, master gardeners, and other school garden practitioners and supporters came from all over the state for this one-day event hosted by the Minnesota Schoolyard Garden Coalition, …