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Austin Youth River Watch
10611 Platt Lane, Austin, Texas 78725
phone: 512-708-9115
http://www.ayrw.org
Austin Youth River Watch is an environmental after-school mentoring program founded in 1992 focused on service learning and scholastic achievement. We monitor water quality in Austin’s creeks and the Colorado River with a group of students from a different high school each weekday. After monitoring, we go to the AYRW house to do homework, work in the garden, and have fun. Each year approximately 100 high school students from south and east Austin participate and receive a stipend for their work. Students who have participated longer help mentor newer students.
Issues: Education, Human/Environmental Health, Water & Watersheds, Youth
Tags:
community-based environmental monitoring,
Environmental education,
environmental education,
mentoring,
Environmental Education Events
Announcements
People
- Elisabeth Welsh, Program Director
- Brent Lyles