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Student Environmental Leadership
Summer Course Descriptions
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is offering three Environmental Leadership courses designed for motivated students who demonstrate initiative and interest in creating positive and lasting environmental change.
SL1 Student Action and Chesapeake Leadership (CLOSED)
June 24-28
This course is open to all eligible Maryland high school students
During this course, students will hike fish, wade, observe, sail, and paddle through some of the most beautiful and inspiring natural areas in the Chesapeake watershed.
Situated on pilings over Tangier Sound, Fox Island Education Center is a uniquely ideal facility for learning about the Chesapeake. This will be a very student-directed course, where leadership skills can be practiced and environmental issues investigated through choices put to the students. We will also be spending a day aboard CBF's Marguerite, a 40-foot education jet boat that needs just eighteen inches of water in which to run, bringing students to often hard-to-reach locations to continue our explorations.
Length and Location: 5 days total—3 days/2 nights at CBF's Fox Island Education Center, and two days/two nights: including time at the Phillip Merrill Center and aboard the Arthur Sherwood Center's workboat Marguerite.
Cost: $100/student (every student receives a $1,500 scholarship, thanks to the generosity of CBF donors)
To Register:Apply online | Apply by mail
SL2 Student Leadership of Anne Arundel County
July 8 – 12
This course is specifically for CRASC students
This summer the Chesapeake Bay Foundation is offering an Environmental Leadership course exclusively for CRASC students. During the first half of the week we will examine general environmental issues through investigating the Chesapeake from the Eastern Shore and Tangier Sound. Students will become intimately familiar with the Bay while staying at a CBF's residential island education centers. The course then shifts focus toward Anne Arundel County. We will examine the Severn River as a microcosm of the Chesapeake. There will be time each day for students to plan and organize around CRASC's goals for the upcoming year.
Length and Location:5 days total—3 days/2 nights at CBF's Karen Noonan Education Center, two days/two nights focused on Anne Arundel county.
Cost: $100/student (every student receives a $1,500 scholarship, thanks to the generosity of CBF donors)
To Register: Contact Aimee Poisson, Administrator for Student Leadership Development and CRASC Advisor, Anne Arundel County Public Schools, at 410-222-5405 or by e-mail at apoisson@aacps.org
SL3 Student Action and Chesapeake Leadership
July 22 – 26
This course is open to all eligible Maryland high school students
During this course, students will hike fish, wade, observe, sail, and paddle through some of the most beautiful and inspiring natural areas in the Chesapeake watershed.
Situated on pilings over Tangier Sound, the Fox Island Education Center is a uniquely ideal facility for learning about the Chesapeake. This will be a very student-directed course, where leadership skills can be practiced and environmental issues investigated through choices put to the students. We will also be spending a day aboard CBF's Marguerite, a 40-foot education jet boat that needs just eighteen inches of water in which to run, bringing students to often hard-to-reach locations to continue our explorations.
Length and Location:5 days total—3 days/2 nights at CBF's Fox Island Education Center and two days/two nights including time at the Philip Merrill Center and aboard the Arthur Sherwood Education Center's workboat Marguerite.
Cost: $100/student (every student receives a $1,500 scholarship, thanks to the generosity of CBF donors)
To Register: Apply online | Apply by mail
Eligibility and Selection
Information about eligibility and the selection process is available on our main Summer Courses page.
Eligibility and Selection
Information about eligibility and the selection process is available on our main Summer Courses page.
How to Apply
To apply for SL 1 or SL 3
Complete the online application or
Download the application (PDF download) and send it to:
Student Leadership
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
6 Herndon Avenue
Annapolis, MD 21403
To apply for SL2
Contact Aimee Poisson, Administrator for Student Leadership Development and CRASC Advisor, Anne Arundel County Public Schools, at 410-222-5405 or by e-mail at apoisson@aacps.org
Questions: Contact SLcoordinator@cbf.org or call 410-268-8816