{"id":15295,"date":"2017-03-23T15:32:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T15:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=15295"},"modified":"2017-03-23T15:32:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T15:32:55","slug":"district-educators-attend-the-paee-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=15295","title":{"rendered":"District Educators Attend the PAEE Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15296\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PAEEworkshop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15296\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15296\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PAEEworkshop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tabletop stormwater best management practices demonstration given by Katy DeMent, Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse; Mandi Lyon, Carnegie Museum of Natural History; and Mary Ann Steiner, Steiner Learning Design. Photo by Brittney Coleman.<\/p><\/div>\r\n<p>PACD awarded seven scholarships for conservation district environmental educators to attend the PA Association of Environmental Educators (PAEE) Conference March 13-14, 2017, at the McKeever Environmental Learning Center in Sandy Lake, PA.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cIt was terrific to participate in a program that included so much diversity in terms of ages of participants\/ideas\/activities. The conference was well rounded, creative and comprehensive\u201d said Jolie Chylack, the Lehigh County Conservation District\u2019s Environmental Education and Outreach Coordinator.<\/p>\r\n<p>The annual two-day conference featured respected speakers, seminars, workshops, and learning experiences covering a wide range of environmental topics. The scholarships gave district educators the opportunity to learn new techniques, discover the latest tools and materials available to them, and to network with other environmental educators from across the state.<\/p>\r\n<p>The scholarships were made possible through an Environmental Education Grant from the PA Department of Environmental Protection.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PACD awarded seven scholarships for conservation district environmental educators to attend the PA Association of Environmental Educators (PAEE) Conference March 13-14, 2017, at the McKeever Environmental Learning Center in Sandy Lake, PA. \u201cIt was terrific to participate in a program that included so much diversity in terms of ages of participants\/ideas\/activities. The conference was well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}