2022 NESS SEA AmeriCorps Day of Service
The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is an official day of service and celebrates the civil rights leader’s life and legacy. Observed each year on the third Monday in January, MLK Day is the only federal holiday designated as a National Day of Service to encourage all Americans to volunteer to improve their communities. AmeriCorps […]
NESS in the News: AmeriCorps members continue service through pandemic
NESS SEA AmeriCorps was recently featured in The Day! “…Anna Richey, 22, is also involved in education but through a different program: the NESS STEM Education Ambassador AmeriCorps Program. She studied wildlife conservation at Juniata College in Pennsylvania, and while looking for a job after graduating in May, AmeriCorps caught her eye. She loved that […]
Great Story: Connecting Students with the Ocean
by Caroline Caton “Socks”, NESS SEA AmeriCorps Member At the beginning of the school year, our fifth-grade students started their nearly three-month-long sailing unit. We prefaced with: “Unfortunately, we can’t actually bring a boat into the school to sail on…” because that would be crazy, right? Little did we all know, we were actually going […]
Welcome AmeriCorps Members!
We are excited to extend a warm welcome to eight new AmeriCorps members to the NESS family! The NESS SEA (STEM Education Ambassador) AmeriCorps team uses national service to engage students in STEM-based ocean adventure learning, bringing everything you love about NESS to schools and organizations in our community. WHAT IS AMERICORPS? AmeriCorps is a national movement of […]