The NOAA Office of Education and NAAEE partnered to increase environmental and science literacy among NOAA’s partners and external networks. In this five-year eeBLUE partnership supported by the U.S. Department of Education, NOAA and NAAEE worked together to provide enriching after-school watershed-related STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) projects through NOAA-21st Century Community Learning Centers Watershed STEM Education Partnership grants. These grants supported programming for a total of 100 local 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) sites and their students. The 30 selected projects served 18 states, ranging from Alaska to Florida.

Learn more about eeBLUE at https://naaee.org/programs/eeblue

eeBLUE - NOAA/NAAEE - VIRGINA

Students participate in an inquiry based research camp that gets them out to explorer their local watershed.

eeBLUE - NOAA/NAAEE - TEXAS

Students get to learn about their intercoastal waterways through exploring local biodiversity.

eeBLUE - NOAA/NAAEE - CALIFORNIA

Students from the Santa Cruz region explore tide pools, learn about aquaculture, and explore the oceans in this incredible grant opportunity.