About the Martinsville-Henry County Community Nature Initiative
With the support of The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont, Virginia Museum of Natural History and its partners, Dr. Denny Casey and Tamara Poles developed a new nature and outdoor initiative entitled the Martinsville Henry County Community Nature Initiative (MHC CNI). The CNI will serve as a clearinghouse for environmental information, use nature as a way to stimulate learning, develop opportunities for quality family time in the outdoors, and position VMNH as a leader in environmental education. CNI will serve as a means to provide hands-on, real-world opportunities for children, educators, and families to increase appreciation for nature and as an effective means to better understand and address community environmental issues.
Summer Camps!!
VMNH received a $5,000 grant from the Bank of America that went towards the VMNH Education Department to implement their camps for free to the community. We did a number of great camps such as Doodle Bugs Summer Science Explorers, Junior Naturalists Camp, Engineering Challenge, and the Great Lunch Adventure. MHC CNI helped conduct the Junior Naturalists camp where we had a number of students from ages 6-12 participate in nature and outdoor programming! We had a blast with the students!
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