Learn about our Natural World with Explore Outdoors!
Downeast Audubon’s Explore Outdoors (EO) program is happy to serve schools, classes, after-school groups, libraries, and other local organizations in Hancock County. The EO program aims to teach youth about the importance of a healthy environment and inspire children about the outdoors. For more information, please contact downeastaudubon@gmail.com
Summer Camp Scholarship
Apply for Summer Nature Camps
Hog Island National Audubon (Only for active teen birders)
ABA Bird Camp (Only for advanced local teen birders)
Acadia Institute of Oceanography
Huricane Island Ecology Camp
Explore Outdoors! Programs offered in Hancock County
This fall, the DEA Explore Outdoors Program will sponsor two overnight trips for classes at Deer Isle High School and Brooksville Elementary School.
DIHS students will explore Hurricane Island and engage in hands-on activities in field science experiments through the Hurricane Island Center for Science and Leadership. Students will be challenged to put their knowledge into action while gaining teamwork and leadership skills.
Brooksville students will explore Acadia National Park at the Schoodic Education Adventure Program (SEA), where they will participate in on-site scientific and cultural research on topics ranging from geology to citizen science and forest ecology.
The DEA Explore Outdoors Program continues to work with Maine Outdoor School (MOS) to offer programs that bring your indoor classroom content outdoors in a hands-on, place-based way. Learn more about MOS here.
To schedule a program for your group, please contact downeastaudubon@gmail.com
DEA sponsors programs with live owls from Birdsacre. Grayson Richmond travels with his owl ambassadors to local schools and other community gatherings where they engage audiences as Grayson talks about the owls in Maine and their conservation.
Chewonki Traveling Natural History Programs
DEA sponsors visits to local schools, libraries and other public venues by Chewonki’s Traveling Natural History Program. Programs range from “The Batmobile” featuring a live big brown bat to “Tidepools”, “Fur, Feathers and Feet” and “Mammals of Maine”.
Chewonki educators bring live animals and props to school groups, large and small. These interactive programs also feature artifacts and examples for students to hear, see, and touch.
