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Over the past six years, the CWS program has traveled more than 7,000 miles, cultivated relationships with more than 25 different program partners, graduated 53 alumni, and persevered through the trials and tribulations of the pandemic.
The program’s achievements are in large part due to the educational power of place-based environmental education—an education we believe will support the next generation of environmental leaders on the Chesapeake and beyond. It is hard to quantify the learning that occurs during a CWS semester. The outcomes are best described by students and their families.
CWS has been the most unique program I have ever taken part in.
The memories and experiences I’ve collected along the way are priceless. From petting cows to running down beaches to collecting water samples from abandoned mines– I would not have done this semester any other way. CWS has taught me numerous lessons and qualities that most
people will never get during their high school experience.
— Allie Fitzgerald, CWS4 F’22 (pictured above)
CWS has honestly helped me see the world and have an appreciation for the smaller things because with the right perspective anything small can seem big. And that’s what CWS was for me. What I thought would be a fun thing to do with friends over the school year ended up shifting the way I look at the entire world.”
— Liam Dickey, CWS4 F’22 (pictured above)