Preparing for the 33rd Annual Learning Celebration!
The Haw River Learning Celebration is a field trip to the Haw River for fourth graders each fall. Since we began the program in 1990, over 48,000 students have participated. Schools attend one of our three locations in Chatham, Alamance and Rockingham counties and spend a day doing activities along the river, enjoying a picnic lunch and puppet show. This fall the Learning Celebration will sprout up along the banks of the Haw River, moving from Chatham to Alamance to Guilford counties over 3 weeks. The Learning Celebration this year will take place between September 24th-October 13th.
Over the years, so many volunteers and HRA staff have given their hearts, hands, and spirits to the continual creation of the Haw River Learning Celebration. Some come for a day, others join our “river camp” and set up a tent for the week. We have connected over 48,000 fourth-grade students to our beautiful river with the help of these amazing volunteers. Students experience activities where they observe, explore, and discover the life of the river and forest, learn how to protect the river, and use art to observe the natural world.
Come join us for an inspiring and fun day (or week) by the Haw River to volunteer as a guide – we provide the training! We also need volunteers to help with weekend field site set-ups and break- downs (Friday afternoon through Sunday afternoon) and to cook meals. You can help as well by making a donation to support our Crowd Funder for this wonderful program. Help celebrate our watershed community’s dedication, and share in the excitement for this year’s 33nd Anniversary of the Haw River Learning Celebration.
Volunteer With Us!
Each year nearly one hundred volunteers make the Learning Celebration a reality, as guides and activity presenters (we provide the training), helping us setup and move between sites, preparing meals for the crew and more!
- Donate a Meal: Our volunteers camp on site with us for the entire week we’re at a site. Want to make a meal for a great cause? We are seeking meal donations to fuel our robust team of volunteers that make the Haw River Learning Celebration possible! Food donations allow us to keep the costs of the program as low as possible. It helps make it feasible for us to charge only $3 per child, and we never turn down a child for inability to pay. We greatly appreciate our food donors and the critical role they play in making the Learning Celebration possible. If you’d rather contribute a monetary donation to cover a meal, we will gladly accept it! Please email events@hawriver.org for more information.
- Be a “Floater” or a “Sticker”: There are 2 main volunteer positions. Floaters spend the entire program day (Tuesdays – Fridays) with the same group of about 10 kids. They walk the kids from station to station. If you’ve never volunteered with us before then the floater position is perfect for you! Stickers stay at one station and teach that station for the entire day. Sticker positions are experienced volunteers and require training from year to year on Sundays and Mondays during the program week. Can’t help out during the week but still want to contribute your time? Sign up for Saturdays when we set up camp! Many hands make light work! You can sign up through the google form below.
- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFbBsDRxe_47rs9NDnDpjMsI3SHfLioME7NpLISK9VUyI0xw/viewform
