Thanks to these and all the businesses, schools and government agencies (listed to the right) that provide volunteers for our festival!
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Our 2011 Water Festival in October was Waterrific!
Applications for the 2012 Water Festival will begin in April
The Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority is proud to sponsor the Children's Water Festival in order to provide water resources education at the elementary level. At the festival, about 1,000 area fourth graders and their teachers participate in five hands on activities about water. These activities are taught by water professionals from our community who are excited to volunteer at the festival - it's a rare opportunity for them to share their chosen field of work with students. If you are a fourth grade teacher and would like your students to have the opportunity to participate in this free day of learning, you should know these things:
- There is no cost to the teachers or schools who participate. We even provide free bus service from your school to the Water Festival and back to your school.
- One teacher should apply for all fourth grade classes at your school. If accepted, all fourth grade classes at your school must attend.
- Applications always exceed the number we can serve, so please know that we will contact all teachers by the last week in August 2011 to let them know if they have been selected.
- If you are not selected this year, please reapply next year.
Our festivals are unique among Children’s Water Festivals nationwide in that we use pre- and post-festival student surveys, activity evaluations, teacher evaluations and presenter evaluations to improve our program. Read about our progress in our Annual Reports:
Want to learn more about our volunteers? Read this: "Children's Water Festival - 2009 Volunteers"
2011 Water Festival In-Kind Contributors
Albuquerque Academy |
| Bernalillo County Cooperative Extension, 4-H |
Bernalillo County Master Gardeners |
Bernalillo County Public Works |
Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program, UNM Dept. Biology & Bosque School |
Bosque School |
Bureau of Reclamation |
CDM |
City of Albuquerque, Open Space Division |
City of Rio Rancho |
Dekker/Perich/Sabatini |
Del Norte High School |
| Downtown Action Team |
HDR Engineering, Inc. |
New Mexico Environment Department |
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science |
NM Gas |
Office of the State Engineer |
Rio Grande Nature Center |
Sandia National Labs |
Sandia Site Office (National Nuclear Security Administration) |
Sandoval County Cooperative Extension |
Smart Use, LLC |
Society of Women Engineers |
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |
U.S. Forest Service, Santa Fe National Forest |
Call Michelle Watson with questions, 850-0608, or email Sharon Sivinkski at ssivinski@abcwua.org |
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