River Stewards Senior Capstone: Environmental Education Outreach to the Dayton Community

River Stewards Senior Capstone: Environmental Education Outreach to the Dayton Community

Presenter(s)

Elisabeth A. Arnold, Allison George, Alison L. Hardie, Kathleen E. Horgan, Andrew Kimes, Gillian R. Leone, Anne C. Meyer, Tessa A. O'Halloran, Lily Pestorius, Catherine Rafter

Comments

Presentation: 11:00-11:30, 323 Kiefaber Street, Unit 1

Description

The River Stewards program is a three-year interdisciplinary leadership and civic engagement program through the Fitz Center for Leadership in Community. Each cohort works together to develop a senior project. The 2024 cohort had a passion and decided to focus their project on education outreach surrounding Dayton’s rivers and watershed as well as continuing the efforts of previous capstone projects. Following the retirement of the RiverMobile, a mobile museum that was a previous capstone project, the 2024 cohort saw a clear need for a new means of providing environmental education to the Dayton community. The first component to the project is the installation of a storybook trail along the Great Miami River of the “Into the River” book developed by the 2020 River Stewards cohort. This storybook trail is one of the first urban and accessible storybook trails in Ohio. In February of 2023 the RiverMobile was made a permanent installation in the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery. The 2024 cohort has worked on developing a partnership with Boonshoft and developing educational outreach curriculum and activities to enhance the RiverMobile exhibit and interact with community members.

Publication Date

4-17-2024

Project Designation

Capstone Project

Primary Advisor

Zachary A. Piso

Primary Advisor's Department

Philosophy

Keywords

Stander Symposium, College of Arts and Sciences

Institutional Learning Goals

Community; Diversity; Critical Evaluation of Our Times

River Stewards Senior Capstone: Environmental Education Outreach to the Dayton Community

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