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Who:        Acting Commissioner Erik Kulleseid, New York State Parks; Humphrey Nature Center environmental educators; New York State public school students on grant-funded field trip

What:       Announce Connect Kids to Parks Field Trip Grant Program milestone and participate in environmental education programming

When:      Today, 10 a.m., Thursday May 2, 2019

Where:     Humphrey Nature Center, Letchworth State Park 
                1 Letchworth State Park 
                Castile, NY 14427

Students from the Riverside Academy Blue Economy Program, Buffalo City School District, will be at Letchworth State Park for a Connect-Kids funded field trip.  The program begins at the Humphrey Nature Center and will include environmental education workshops at Trout Pond, a short walk from the nature center.

The Connect Kids to Parks program offers state grants to public schools in Title 1 districts throughout New York State to fund field trips to state parks and historic sites for environmental, historical and physical education programming. The Connect Kids program will refund up to $1,000 of the field trip costs for visits to a New York State Park, Nature Center, or Historic Site (Parks), or a Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Environmental Education Center, fish hatchery, or selected DEC sites.