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Last Updated: Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Museum Receives Environmental Education Grant from Walmart
Targeted News Service
July 28, 2010 The North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources Museum of Natural Sciences issued the following news release:
The Walmart Foundation recently provided the NC Museum of Natural Sciences with $50,000 to support environmental education programs at Prairie Ridge, the Museum's 40-acre outdoor education center located off Reedy Creek Road in west Raleigh. These programs include:
Girls in Science, a program for 6th grade girls that provides mentorship from female scientists as they work together to conduct water monitoring studies and learn about pollutants and ways to reduce them.
Museum in Communities, which introduces families and groups with special needs to the natural sciences by providing encounters with living animals, plants and other specimens at community libraries and centers in rural and inner-city neighborhoods in all 100 NC counties. Read the full article.
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