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This season, we focused on education, and we had some great guests for you to listen to!
Episode 41 is the season 5 finale, recorded at the Choose Clean Water Conference in downtown Lancaster! We wrapped up the season with some fond memories, guests pulled directly from the conference, and a look into season 6. We would especially like to thank our season 5 sponsor, RK&K, for embarking on this adventure with us!

Links from this episode

• Choose Clean Water Conference
• Youth Conservation School
• Ahsley Spotts represents Chesapeake Bay Foundation
• Amanda Bush represents HRG
• Emily Thorpe represents the University of Maryland, Sea Grant Extension
• Kelly Slippey represents Lancaster Conservancy
• Lancaster Water Week
• email for trivia: info@LancasterCleanWaterPartners.com

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This episode features Jennifer Diaz and Sarah Kemble of Leadership Lancaster. Sarah and Jennifer are both exceptional storytellers who make us laugh, think, and become inspired to take our next steps. It's a fun and insightful discussion on leadership, collaboration, and connection.

We also hear from Sallie Gregory, Lancaster County Conservation District's Education and Operations Coordinator, who tells us about an opportunity for K-12 students at Lancaster County Youth Conservation School.

Here are links from the discussion:

https://leadershiplancaster.org/

https://lancasterconservation.org/youth-conservation-school/

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We continue our theme of education in the conservation world with this Conversation with Lancaster County's three formal institutes of higher learning. Franklin & Marshall College, Millersville University, and Elizabethtown College each provide robust environmental studies programs, complemented by hands-on and extracurricular experiences that deepen student learning. Beyond campus, all three are actively involved with local K–12 students through outreach efforts, partnerships, and educational programming.

Together, these efforts highlight a shared priority across Lancaster County’s higher education institutions: not only educating students about environmental stewardship, but fostering a broader culture of responsibility and care that extends to future generations.

Watershed Education Training Institute

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In this episode, we talk with Diana Oviedo Vargas and Melinda Daniels, Research Scientists from Stroud Water Research Center about what brought them to water science, the impact Stroud is making in helping to positively affect our waterways, and we play a game of Hiking Trivia.

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Season 5 of Clean Water Conversations is all about environmental education and who better to talk on the subject than Tom Ackerman, the Vice President of Education at Chesapeake Bay Foundation? We talk with Tom about the challenges and rewards of getting students outside of the classroom, the current curriculum, and saving Abraham Lincoln. We also play a round of National Park trivia.

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In this episode, we are talking with Mr. Brandon Bixler, Agriculture and Environmental studies teacher and FFA staff advisor at McCaskey High School and Valerie Gray, student and president of the FFA Chapter at McCaskey High School. We discuss FFA in an urban school setting, how to explain Lancaster County farming to Floridians and how a stuffed bird can make a good booth-minder.

Learn more about McCaskey High School's FFA Chapter

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Season 5 is all about conservation education from the ground up; from kids to adults, from conservation entusiasts to conservation professionals. We celebrate the people and programs that share the knowledge that makes a difference to our waters. Season 5 of Clean Water Conversations is sponsored by RK&K

We begin season 5 with a conversation with Angie Martin, the Director for Community Engagement at the Edible Classroom. We discuss teaching kids about growing and cooking their own food through hands-on experience, regenerative conservation, and kunekune pigs. Then we play a deceptive, literary game of trivia.

You just might learn something while having fun!

Referenced links in this episode:

The Edible Classroom - https://theedibleclassroom.org/

Read more about the Ebible Classroom in Alliance for the Chesapeak Bay's newsletter

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We wrap up season 4 by talking to Drew Robinson, Communications Director for the Choose Clean Water Coalition and Chair for the Development and Communications Committee at Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake> We discuss Conservation Communications and storytelling, the updated Bay Agreement, The Choose Clean Water Conference coming to Lancaster in May, and more! We also play a round of trivia that Drew just knocked out of the park!

Links discussed in this episode:
Choose Clean Water Conference
Cause Camp

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Music credit:
"Over There" (1917), George M. Cohan (Public Domain)