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GLIN==> 7th Biennial Lake Superior Youth Symposium ~ May 10-13 near Marquette, MI - Registration now open

*7^th Biennial Lake Superior Youth Symposium set for May 10-13 near Marquette, MI*

*//*Registration is now open for the 7^th Biennial Lake Superior Youth Symposium for grades 8-12 students and educators from Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ontario that will take place May 10-13, 2007 at Bay Cliff Health Camp in Big Bay, near Marquette, MI. *//*

At the symposium, participants will participate in a variety of fun and engaging activities including field trips, watershed research, hands-on investigations, leadership-building activities, explorations of the history and culture of the Lake Superior region, and much, much more! Throughout the symposium, students will share their knowledge and skills, learn how to assess needs in their local community, brainstorm strategies for addressing issues, and develop a project to implement when they return home using the Kellogg Foundation’s publication /Young People Creating Community Change./ By gathering together students from all over the Lake Superior Basin, the symposium reinforces the concept that residents from throughout the basin share common problems and must work together to create solutions.

The 2007 symposium is hosted by the Glenn T. Seaborg Center for Teaching and Learning Science and Mathematics at Northern Michigan University (NMU). To request registration materials, contact Ann Joyal at 906-227-2092 or ajoyal@nmu.edu <mailto:ajoyal@nmu.edu>. Registration is $125 per person, student or adult, which includes 3 nights lodging, meals, field trip transportation, and all activities. Limited to the first 200 students to register. Information on the web at: http://wupcenter.mtu.edu/education/lake_superior_symposium/index.html.

A cooperative team of educational and government agencies and non-profit organizations is planning the 2007 symposium: Seaborg Center, Lake Superior Binational Forum, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Michigan DNR, National Park Service at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Superior Watershed Partnership, NOAA Sea Grant Program, The Great Lakes Center for Youth Development, Michigan State University’s Cooperative Extension Program, NMU Center for Native American Studies, Michigan Technological University, and the Western U.P. Center for Science, Mathematics & Environmental Education, and county conservation districts.

A bus is reserved to take 45 students and teachers roundtrip from the CCISD in Hancock to Big Bay. We'll depart 1 pm, Thursday, May 10, and return 3 pm, Sunday, May 13. Cost is $25 per student. Teachers and chaperones ride FREE!

You can print the brochure from the website: http://wupcenter.mtu.edu/education/lake_superior_symposium/index.html

This will be another great symposium with lots of fun and unique activities!

* * *For More Information, contact: *Ann Joyal at 906-227-2092 or ajoyal@nmu.edu <mailto:ajoyal@nmu.edu>


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Joan Schumaker Chadde, Education Program Coordinator
Western Upper Peninsula Center for Science, Mathematics & Environmental Education
105 Dillman Hall
Michigan Technological University
1400 Townsend Dr., Houghton, MI 49931-1295
Tel: (906) 487-3341 Fax: (906) 487-1620 Email: jchadde@mtu.edu

Western Upper Peninsula Center for Science, Mathematics & Environmental Education website: http://wupcenter.mtu.edu/

The Western U.P. Center is a partnership of Copper Country & Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School Districts and Michigan Technological University, serving 20 school districts and the communities in Houghton, Baraga, Gogebic, Ontonagon and Keweenaw Counties. 



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