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Montgomery County Elementary School Receives $4,800 Environmental Education Grant From EPA

Release Date: 7/28/1999
Contact Information: Roy Seneca (215) 814-5567

CHRISTIANBURG, Va. -- A Montgomery County elementary school has received a $4,800 environmental education grant to develop a wildlife awareness program on school grounds and then educate the public about wildlife concerns through the school’s Internet website.

The Christianburg Elementary School will use the funds to develop the school site as a habitat for wildlife and train students to use it as a practice site to monitor wildlife species in the Christiansburg community. Students will then use on-line media resources at the school to design, build, and link wildlife web pages to the Internet.

The project, which is operated in cooperation with Virginia Tech Institute for Connecting Science Research to the Classroom, will teach students to identify, record and report wildlife data to the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries.

"This project will serve as a model to educate students and the general public about the importance of wildlife habitat preservation in their community," said W. Michael McCabe, regional administrator for the EPA’s mid-Atlantic region.

EPA’s education grant program is designed to stimulate grass-roots environmental education. In the mid-Atlantic Region, the 25 grant recipients included schools, civic groups and non-profit organizations. Nationally, $3 million was awarded in 1999.

For more information on this grant, contact Nan Ides at (215) 814-5546. EPA’s regional Internet home page also has general information on the grants: https://www.epa.gov/region03.