Welcome Parents!
Parents often have conversations with their kids that sound something like this. "Hi Honey! How was your day today?" Child says, "Fine." Followed by silence.
Dreams of a different scenario become reality for parents of Catamount Institute Students.
"I find it difficult to get my daughter to tell me how her day has been at school, but she enjoys Catamount's Young Environmental Stewards so much she can’t stop talking about it. She loves it.”
Our science-based environmental education programs promote science literacy, outdoor exploration, experiential learning, personal growth, and college and career awareness to students throughout the Pikes Peak region. These programs provide exceptional opportunities for youth to experience and understand their world with an enriched sense of their surroundings.
Our "outdoor classrooms" offer a distinctive atmosphere for learning that provides leadership training, cooperative group projects, and hands-on experiments and service learning experiences that would otherwise be unavailable to these young people. Child-nature based education does not limit what children experience to the purely scientific, but rather heightens their senses, opening their minds to creativity inspired by the profound gifts of nature which engage the whole child.
Catamount Institute extends our learning experiences in an accessible, science-based thought-provoking way. We engage the mind with exciting, hands-on experiences that lay a foundation for future scientific exploration. At the core of all our programming is a commitment to ecologically sound and sustainable practices that enhance what students are learning in school.
What Catamount's students learn goes home with them to their families. Their families in turn talk about these science and environmental topics in the grocery store, at work, in the park, at parties. This learning goes beyond the kids. They are teaching the community.”
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