Hurricane Island has been working in partnership with University of Maine 4-H Camp & Learning Center at Blueberry Cove to provide place-based programming to all 6th-grade students from St. George School. This collaboration extends St. George's capacity to engage students outdoors in meaningful ways, connecting them to place-based science while addressing social-emotional needs.
We have also been working with individual teachers to transition their classroom lessons to online or outdoor environments to be COVID responsive. In addition, Penobscot Bay students across multiple schools continue to participate in our scallop research, deploying several lines of spat bags in the fall that they will retrieve and collect data on in the spring.
First National Bank's contribution has funded all these efforts, and we are incredibly grateful for their continued support.