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Urbana Oyster Festival's Marine Science Legacy program highlighted at Middlesex school board meeting
Summary
Program coordinator Clark Glasser told the Middlesex County Public Schools board that the Urbana Oyster Festival's Marine Science Legacy program partners with local organizations to give students hands-on marine experiences, including field trips to Tangier Island and Port Isabel and classroom projects such as aquariums and water-quality testing.
Clark Glasser, who identified himself as the program coordinator for the Urbana Oyster Festival Marine Science Legacy program and a teacher at Middlesex High School, told the Middlesex County Public Schools board the program aims to expand hands-on marine science opportunities for students.
"We really wanted to come here and tell you guys a little bit about the Marine Science Legacy program," Glasser said, noting partnerships with the Friends of the Rappahannock, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Tidewater oyster growers. He described classroom projects (including an aquarium built for a teacher's class) and field trips that have taken students to Port Isabel and Tangier Island.
Why it matters: The program connects school curriculum to local resources, giving younger students experiential learning outside the classroom and supporting district goals for community collaboration and discovery expressed in the district's mission language.
Details and response: Glasser said the seventh- and eighth-grade classes traveled to Tangier this year and that trips require significant time commitments from teachers and parents. A member of the Oyster Festival Foundation board thanked Glasser and named supporting teachers (Mrs. Fleet, Macy McNamee and Jennifer Marr), saying the foundation views the program as a partnership with the schools.
The board did not take action on funding at the meeting; Glasser and the foundation offered to provide more information and answer follow-up questions.
