Friday, June 13, 2008

The school year ends...we reach our 20,000 student!

Killer Whale Tales kicked off our celebration of Orca Month by working with our 20,000th student today. We were so tickled that it coincided with the beginning of the month, and that it happened at Gig Harbor Elementary, right up the street from one of our largest contributors, the Russell Family Foundation.

It has been a great year for us and the program is continuing to grow beyond the state, in fact we are headed for Texas, to get those kids dialed in to making a difference for our northwest whales.

We currently have funding to offer our program to all interested schools willing to complete our Kids Making a Difference Now! homework activity. This simple assignment asks students to go home and examine their ecological footprint and to change some of their habits to protect the whales and the salmon the desperately need. It's an easy task and a great way to get 2-6 hours of programming into their schools at no cost.

Anyway... thanks to everyone, from our individual donors to NOAA Fisheries and the Norcliffe Foundation, who continue to bank on the future generation handling things a bit better than those who came before them.

Thanks and happy Orca Month!
J

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