Gulf Guardian Award winner - Gulf of Mexico Foundation's Science & Spanish Club Network

The Gulf of Mexico Foundation's Science & Spanish Club Network (SSCN), established in 2000, is a multicultural approach to coastal environmental education with a focus on the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean and Upper 31States ecosystems. SSCN started in 2000 with two middle schools from Corpus Christi, Texas and Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The exchange between these two schools was founded in the experiences of a group of fourth grade students from Colegio Juvenal Rendon de Matamoros who came to the Gulf of Mexico Program's Gulf of Mexico Symposium held in March 1995 in Corpus Christi aboard the USS Lexington. The SSCN is an extracurricular and informal education program that uses critical habitat watersheds and shared ecosystems as the framework for developing environmentally engaged youth in grades 4-12 from primarily coastal and rural communities in Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, St. Croix and soon Colorado, Montana and Minnesota. The SSCN strives to create the next generation of leaders in stewardship of the greater Gulf of Mexico community. The Science & Spanish Club is named that because the next generations of Gulf leaders have to know their science and be communicators of that science within the greater Gulf community.

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• bi-cultural education
• science education
• Gulf of Mexico Foundation
• Science & Spanish Club Network