Center for Service Learning
2007 LEAF Application
Learn-n-serve Environmental Anthropology Field (LEAF) school invites applications for Summer 2007. LEAF is a new service-learning program that provides students with the opportunity to work hands-on in environmental stewardship.
LEAF School includes:
- Maintaining an ethnobotanical garden at Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center
- Salmon habitat restoration and monitoring on rivers and streams in Snohomish, King, and Island counties
- Surveys of animal habitats at local beaches and rivers
- Maintenance of Native Growth Protection Areas
- Support of Native cultural festivals and powwows
- And, much more!
Students participating in LEAF will earn 15 social science distribution credits and, if eligible, a $1,000 AmeriCorps scholarship. To be eligible for the AmeriCorps scholarship students must be at least 17 years of age, have a high school diploma (or expect to complete one within a year), and be a U.S. Citizen or legal resident of the U.S.
The summer field school will meet from 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, T-F, June 26th through August 17th.
Students of all abilities are encouraged to apply. Priority will be given to applications received by June 1, 2007.
