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TWIN LAKES WRAPS (Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy). - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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TWIN LAKES WRAPS(Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy)
Twin Lakes Water Festival is a project under the current Twin Lakes WRAPS Program. WRAPS stands for Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy, and clean water initiative through the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. It is a grass-roots effort
addressing water quality concerns on the local level, yet funded through EPA Section 19 funds, as well as State Water Plan Funds. Through the
WRAPS project that I coordinate in the Neosho River Headwaters, a large portion of our goals and objectives are met through public education. The Twin Lakes WRAPS decided to initiate the TWIN LAKES WATER
FESTIVAL in 2004, and provide this fantastic educational opportunity to area students who were not currently being serviced by a water festival.
Listed are some of our main partners, sponsors, and supporters.
What IS the Twin Lakes Water Festival?
Our event is an educational festival focusing on natural resources, with an emphasis on water quality and
conservation. This day-long event allows students to explore our precious resources through a multi-sensory, hands-on
learning approach. Presentations are led by natural resource professionals from across the state of Kansas, and are
delivered in a fun, interactive way that encourages critical thinking, problem solving, and responsible decision making. We also stress the importance of holistic, watershed-based
thinking.
2005SCHOOLS• 633 students• 28 classes• 17 schools • 4 counties:
CHASEGEARYMORRIS
WABAUNSEE
PRESENTERS• 41 natural resource professionals• 26 agencies, organizations, and
businesses from across KS
VOLUNTEERS• 126 local volunteers including:• 30 high school students from
White City and Council Grove High Schools
2008SCHOOLS• 1115 students• 56 classes• 29 schools • 6 counties:
CHASEGEARYMORRIS
WABAUNSEELYON
DICKINSON
PRESENTERS• 70 natural resource professionals• 44 agencies, organizations, and
businesses from across KS
VOLUNTEERS• 164 local volunteers including:• 140 high school students from
Northern Heights, Council Grove, Chase County and White City High Schools
The Festival is held at the Council Grove Lake and is an incredible day of opportunity for all involved. All attending students are kept in their home-room classes and accompanied by their teachers and adult chaperones, and move to different 20-minute activity stations throughout the day. Our targeted students are in the 4th and 5th grades.
Just Passing ThroughBy: Melvern WRAPS Project
Activities Include:
Migration HeadacheBy: Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks
Kansas Critters
By: Ft. Riley Environmental Services
Muscle Mania
By: The Watershed Institute
Graze Like a Cow
By: Natural Resources Conservation Service
Crime Scene InvestigationBy: Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks
Macroinvertebrate MayhemBy: Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks
The Long HaulBy: Farm Service Agency
Gooey GarbageBy: Dickinson County Environmental Services
Herpetology
By: Ft. Riley Environmental Services
Watersheds
By: State Conservation Commission
Poetic Precipitation
By: Diane Euler
Water Wheel
By: Drew Switzer – WIBW TV
Coordinating 30 schools, 300 staff from across the state, and generating media and sponsor participation is no easy task. This
year our team utilized over 160 high school students from Northern Heights High School, as well as Chase County, Council Grove and
White City High School students, who served as tour guides for our attending classes. These high school students worked on an individual basis, allowing their incredible responsibility and
leadership skills to shine through.
We also bring together volunteer staff from across the area including: a registered nurse and EMS on-location, lunch staff, and teams delivering ice and water to participants.
HerpetologyBy: Sternberg Museum,
Hays
Our 95 presenters came from all over the state of Kansas to share their expertise with our students, some from as far away as Pretty Prairie, Independence, and Hays.
US Army Corps of Engineers Park Rangers
Through the years, our festival has maintained it’s top 3 priorities : 1, the safety of all participants. Our undisclosed location is second-to-none, and the area is closed to non-participants, as well as patrolled by Corps of Engineers staff and local law enforcement.
Our second priority is to provide an excellent learning opportunity for all participants, As long as our schools continue to participate in our festival, we will continue to offer a fantastic learning opportunity for their students. The majority of our activities that students participate in are correlated to the Kansas Core Curricular Standards, allowing teachers to meet their required standards and benchmarks by participating in our event.
And our third priority has been to make our festival accessible to all participants. Through sponsors and partners of our festival, we proud to offer a chauffeur service to any special-needs participants, and through generous donations of sponsors of our festival, we are able to have schools participate in our event Absolutely COST FREE.
As our festival continues to expand, our need for increased media and sponsorship participation is growing as well.
We have reimbursed attending school districts nearly $8000 in 4 years to cover their bussing and travel costs associated with attending our festival.
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In November of 2007, the Twin Lakes
Water Festival was honored to receive the 2007 KACD Conservation District Educational/Activity Event of the Year Award in Wichita. The cooperative efforts of the counties actively involved n this program are truly what makes it a success.
2007 KACD Conservation District Educational Activity/Event of the Year Award
Denise Bentemann Linda Stewart JoBea Titus-Hutchinson Katie MillerChase Co. CD Geary Co. CD Morris Co. Cons. District Twin Lakes Coordinator