Programs-VEMN-Youth

VEMN-Youth Division (YD) is an environmental education program to support a network of junior high and senior high youths in three urban communities: Haverhill, Lawrence, and Lowell to monitor tributaries to the Merrimack River. In implementing this program, MRWC will address the need for career training and environmental awareness in urban communities, as well as the increasing water quality concerns in the lower Merrimack River from the estuary to Lowell, MA. This program is divided into a teaching skills section and a career development section; the former will offer local teachers watershed curriculum and activities at the middle school level, while the latter will provide high school students exposure to careers in the environmental sciences and an opportunity to get involved in after-school watershed monitoring and testing.

VEMN-YD leaders have held a training seminar for the middle school teachers and prepared flyers to recruit volunteers in non-profit organizations and schools in Lowell, Lawrence and Haverhill. These volunteers can help with either VEMN or VEMN-YD, so there is no age requirement. If you work for a non-profit organization or a school along the Merrimack River, or you would just like to volunteer, call us up and we can send you a flyer.