Record 900 Students Participate In Lake Adventure Days
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Staff Report-
A record-setting 900 students from 12 Kosciusko County schools visited Pike Lake during the Lilly Center for Lakes & Streams’ annual Lake Adventure Days.
The field trip took place Sept. 28-29.
The Lilly Center teamed with local volunteers and Indiana Department of Natural Resources officers, Grace College elementary education students and the Grace College School of Education.
Lake Adventure Day was arranged by Caitlin Yoder, education coordinator at the Lilly Center for Lakes & Streams.
Fourth-graders from elementary schools including Akron, Claypool, Eisenhower, Jefferson, Leesburg, Lincoln, Milford, North Webster, Syracuse, Triton, Warsaw Christian, Washington STEM Academy and local homeschools enjoyed the event.
Lake Adventure Day focuses on firsthand education. Fourth-graders took turns visiting five stations. They did water testing, built mini-watersheds, competed in an exercise to learn how to save water, created a water-themed craft and even went fishing.
Kosciusko County has over 100 lakes, but this was the first time many of the fourth-graders took a closer look at them. Erica Kimble, a fourth-grade teacher from North Webster Elementary, said that an event like Lake Adventure Day is important because “(the students) are going to be around the lakes for the rest of their lives, and they need to learn about how to maintain them for their futures and their families.”
The Lilly Center for Lakes & Streams is creating educational opportunities throughout the 2017-18 school year through programs such as Classroom Lake Experience, the Lakes & Streams Art Contest and Aquatic Petting Zoos.
Sponsors of the 2017 Lake Adventure Day event included Bart's Watersports, city of Warsaw, Dekko Foundation, DePuy Synthes, Warsaw Kiwanis Club, Louis Dreyfus Co., Lake Tippecanoe Property Owners, Warsaw Breakfast Optimist Club, The Papers Inc. and Zimmer Biomet.
