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Fair Hill Nature Center seeks state support to expand outdoor education, cites success converting small grants into local investment
Summary
The Fair Hill Nature Center told the Eastern Shore delegation it provides outdoor environmental education to thousands of students, seeks state aided-institution status and highlighted how small regional grants helped leverage substantial private donations and capital improvements.
Laura Hannon, executive director of Fair Hill Nature Center in Cecil County, told the Eastern Shore delegation on Feb. 21 that the nonprofit provides outdoor environmental education to roughly 7,500 public‑school students annually and is seeking additional state and private support to expand programs.
Hannon described the center’s curriculum of hands-on, grade‑specific field trips — ‘‘every field trip has an engineering and design challenge’’ — and said the center supplies one day of outdoor environmental education for Cecil County elementary students over…
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