SSCN SPONSORS








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SSCN PARTNERS
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge
Aransas Pass Chamber of Commerce
Cameron County Parks & Recreation Department
City of Aransas Pass
City of Laguna Vista
City of Los Fresnos
City of Port Lavaca
City of South Padre Island
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program
Coastal Bend Bays Foundation
Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority
Jobos Bay NERRR
Laguna Atascosca National Wildlife Refuge
Laguna Madre Boys & Girls Club
Lower Colorado River Authority
Matagorda County Coastal Committee
Port of Brownsville
Rio Grande International Study Center
Sarasota Bay Estuaries Program
Sinton Independent School District
Texas GLO Adopt-A-Beach Program
Texas Parks & Wildlife Coastal Fisheries Division
Texas Transportation Institute
UT Brownsville
Welder Wildlife Refuge
Wood Buffalo National Park
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2010 SSCN CALENDAR
Feb 18 - Aransas National Wildlife Refuge
Whooping Crane tour + boat cruise on Skimmer
Feb 19 - Shrimp Poster Competition presentation in
Rockport, Texas
Feb 25-27 - Port Aransas Whooping Crane Festival
March 5 - Seagrass Festival of Knowledge,
Aransas Pass Civic Center, using distance technology to
link Puerto Rico, Mexico, Canada, Florida and Texas.
March 6 - Fulton Oyster Fest Parade (Redfish
Bay Trash & Seagrass Parade collaboration)
March 6 - Redfish Bay Cleanup
March 6 - Walking Wetlands Tour at UTMSI with
Ingleside, Corpus Christi, Sinton, Aransas Pass SSCs
March 6 - Coastal Cleanup at Redfish Bay Lighthouse
Lakes Trail Park with OxyChem
April 17 - 4th Annual Bahia Grande Limpienato &
Coastal Cleanup in Port Isabel and South Padre Island with
SSCs from Matamoros, Brownsville & Port Isabel, plus other
groups
April 17 - Earth Day Bay Day in Corpus Christi
with SSCs from Aransas Pass, Corpus Christi & Ingleside
in Texas Parks & Wildlife tent
April 24 - Matagorda Island Shoreline Cleanup
with SSCs from Port Lavaca, Ingleside, Aransas Pass,
Corpus Christi & Sinton, Texas
April 24 - Earth Day Arbor Day with SSC from Brownsville,
Texas
May - San Patricio County “Living & Working
in the Coastal Zone” and “Econmy=Ecology Week” at Sinton
Discovery Center
June 11-13 - Shrimporee in Aransas Pass with
SSCs from Corpus Christi, Sinton, Ingleside at Redfish Bay Seagrass
tent
June 9-10 - SSCN 2010 Faculty Training at
Discovery Center in Sinton, Texas
June 14-16 - SSCN Project Coordinator in
Galveston to make environmental education presentation to
Equatorial Guinea delegation for artificial reef project
June 26 - Colegio Juvenal Rendon 20th Anniversary Alumni
Reunion in Matamoros, Mexico
July 1-4 - GMF exhibit at Sail South Texas 2010
Tall Ships celebration
July 24 - GMF exhibit at Texas General Land
Office Coastal Expo at Texas State Aquarium in Corpus
Christi
Aug 3-5 - SSCN Project Coordinator at All Hands
Meeting with Gulf of Mexico Alliance in Biloxi,
Mississippi
Oct 16 - GMF SSCs in Brownsville, Port Isabel and Matamoros in
Dia Del Rio Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Watershed Relay
Oct 23 - SSCN participate in US Forest Service's climate change initiative called
FOCUS (Forests, Oceans, Climate and Us)
Nov 6 - SSCN Gulf of Mexico Youth Leadership & Stewardship Conference, Aransas Pass, Texas
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CLUB LOCATIONS
TEXAS
Aransas Pass
· Aransas Pass High (pdf)
· AC Blunt Middle School
Bay City
· Bay City Middle School
Brownsville
· Dr. Juliette Garcia Middle (pdf)
Corpus Christi
· Martin Middle School (pdf)
El Maton
· Tidehaven Intermediate (pdf)
Ingleside
· Blaschke Elementary School
Palacios
Port Isabel
· Colegio Rendon
Port Lavaca
· Calhoun High School
· Travis Middle School (pdf)
Rockport-Fulton
· Rockport-Fulton Middle School
Sinton
· Smith Junior High (pdf)
· Sinton High School
Van Vleck
· Van Vleck High School(pdf)
FLORIDA
St. Mark's
UPPER 33
Necedeh, Wisconsin
NW Territories, Canada
Stafford, Kansas
MEXICO
Matamoros
CARIBBEAN
Penuelas, Puerto Rico
· Rafael Irrizary Middle (pdf)
US Virgin Islands
· St. Croix Central High School
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SSCN AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
2010 - Coastal Management Program Grant Cycle 15
2009 - Gulf of Mexico Program Gulf Guardian Award Binational category
2008 - Texas General Land Office Coastal Management Program Grant Cycle 13 recipient
2008 - The Conservation Fund National Forum on Children and Nature Top 30 Programs in America recipient
2007 - Coastal Impact Assistance Program Grant Cycle 2 recipient
2007 - Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Environmental Excellence Award Winner-Youth Category
2007 - Gulf of Mexico Alliance Environmental Education Committee Best Practices Demonstration Program for Underserved/Underrepresented Populations
2007 - Texas General Land Office Coastal Management Program Grant Cycle 12 recipient
2007 - Ocean Conservancy’s 1st Caribbean Ocean Summit for Youth Invited participants to represent the Gulf of Mexico
2006 - Boys & Girls Club of America National Dragonfly Quest Science Fair Competition in the Environmental Science category
2006 - Coastal Bend Bays Foundation Environmental Stewardship Award-Middle School category
2005 - Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Environmental Excellence Award Finalist-Non-Profit Organization category
2003 - Coastal Impact Assistance Program Grant Cycle 1 recipient
2001 - Corpus Christi Independent School District Innovative Idea Grant Winner-Middle School Category