School Projects/Reports

 

PCRS devotes a large amount of time to the involvement of students in its activities and operations. In fact, each year we try to get students from the local colleges or high schools to coordinate our projects.

 

One example of PCRS recruiting students is our eelgrass study, which has had a graduate of University of Puget Sound (UPS) and a student from Tacoma Community College (TCC) as coordinators. In the past, we have had a UPS student coordinating the monitoring of planted vegetation in our riparian restoration area.

 

Beyond recruitment, PCRS supplies information from our resource library to students from local schools including TCC, UPS, University of Washington-Tacoma, and Bellarmine High School. These students use this information for writing reports which, once graded, make it back into our resource library for others to use.

 

We hope to develop studies in the Puget Creek Watershed that the students implement themselves and which are centered on the student's individual interest, but will result in written reports for our library as well. So far, we have received interns from Charles Wright Academy and Illahee Junior High to facilitate this idea, while providing the students with environmental experiences.

 

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