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Native Youth Enrichment Program Visit NOAA in Seattle

On August 19, 2014, NOAA was very pleased to host students enrolled at the Native Youth Enrichment Program at the University of Washington.

The middle and high school students, from different Indian Tribes in Washington States, came to the NOAA Campus on Sand Point, received an overview of NOAA and a tour of NOAA campus, visited a marine pathobiology lab, and learned about toxic algae bloom and marine debris.

Learning is best done by doing, and for the marine debris activity the students dug into “beach boxes” filled with sand to discover items commonly found on the beach, from pieces of wood and sea weeds – organic material and part of the beach ecology - to marine debris of all kinds, mostly plastic, collected from a beach near Seattle, items that do not belong on the beach and should be removed. A discussion of the impact of marine debris followed, and what can we all do to prevent and remove marine debris.

For more information on the Native Youth Enrichment Program visit contact Peggy.Foreman@noaa.gov or Nir.Barnea@noaa.gov.

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Native Youth Enrichment Program students dig through sand in buckets to find various types of marine debris collected from a nearby beach in Seattle. (NOAA)
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