Imagine lifting off from Georgetown on a flight into the interior and peering out your window only to see green stretching to the horizon in every direction. Consider hiking through the lush Iwokrama Forest to the peak of Turtle Mountain where you watch spider monkeys bound through the trees below. Close your eyes….

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“Never in a million years did I think I’d be getting my master’s degree by traveling around the world,” said Pinewood Elementary School’s Holly O’Connell. But that is exactly what the second-grade teacher is doing.

O’Connell and a student from Belize

Danae’ Wirth, first row on the left, and her Project Dragonfly colleagues, in Trinidad

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Jim Miller shown inside a “pig,” a scrubber that helps clean the inside of the Alaskan pipeline

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Continuing her master’s program studies, one Canfield High School teacher will be spending her summer in class, so to speak. “We’ll be sleeping under the stars and bathing in the Sea of Cortez,” she said.

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From Stephanie Stowell, Earth Expeditions Borneo II course instructor:
“Check it out! Borneo II EEers on the front page of the Borneo Post. The DGFC is getting a ton of press out of this first-ever collaring of a slow loris. Pretty cool to have been there when it all went down. Half of our group was out on a night hike with DGFC staff when the slow loris was spotted. One of the DGFC guys ripped off his shoes and scrambled up the tree to get him and brought him back to the lab. Everyone got a chance to see “Krik” in the lab and then they closed the door while they did all the measurements and fitted him with his new necklace. Pretty amazing experience….wanted to share!”

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For the last 2 weeks in June, 2 groups of 20/21 students from the Global Field Program (GFP) visited DGFC for a field expedition focusing on Primate Conservation.

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Ask any of the several hundred participants in the January 8, 2011 World Community Conference at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden what inspires them. Likely you’ll receive several hundred different answers – yet they all have something in common.

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Elephants and crocodiles and orangutans! Oh my!

Former Grayslake Central High School teacher Katie Titus Larson recently returned to the U.S. after spending about two weeks in tropical Borneo for a graduate primate conservation course and encountered a variety of animals.

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GFP students Holly Goodpaster and Brenda Greene, as the culmination of their “Leadership in Science Inquiry” course, organized the “Earth Day Family Fest” with the Felicity-Franklin Elementary School third- and fourth-grade Science Club.

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Recently the Toledo Zoological Society and Toledo Public Schools (TPS) investigated techniques to increase student learning through unique experiences in an urban environment.

Download PDF article on Cook and her recent Inquiry Action Project and her GFP Master Plan, which deals in part with trying to form partnerships within the community to help her urban high school students.