Education Village, sponsored by NOAA
During Harbor Fest 2009 South Carolina Maritime Foundation will once again host the Education Village, an area full of hands-on activities for all ages. In the Education Village organizations and groups from throughout the Lowcountry share their mission through hands-on interactive activities. Visitors can learn how to make a fish print, fly an underwater vehicle, explore a salt marsh, try their hand at knot tying and much, much more.
Water Walk….
This year a new area of the Education Village will aim to educate the public about the effects of pollution on our coastal community. An interactive exhibit will lead festival goers through the various environmental issues affecting our waterways and what they can do to help prevent it.
We all live downstream from someone and someone lives down stream from us, yet we continue to pollute our waterways. By over-fertilizing the lawn, not picking up after the dog, tossing leftover motor oil in the ditch out back — waste from such routine acts are picked up by rainfall and run through the drainage system directly to our streams, lakes, rivers and the ocean.
The South Carolina Maritime Foundation is working closely with community partners to host this exhibit, including the Ashley Cooper Stormwater Education Consortium.
