Date/Time
Date(s) – 06/03/2017
8:00 am – 3:00 pm
Location
Kaiser Park along Coney Island Creek
Category(ies)
At Kaiser Park along Coney Island Creek, on Saturday, June 3rd, 2017
NYMS’ TABLE: MICROSCOPES & MICROSCOPISTS YOUNG AND OLD !
NYMS at It’s My Estuary 2014:
On Saturday, June 3rd, for a day of service, learning and celebration along the Coney Island Creek in Kaiser Park!
It’s My Estuary Day starts with a morning coastal cleanup, and all morning into early afternoon various marine education exhibition tables–INCLUDING NYMS’ MICROSCOPY TABLE, with Guy DeBaere, Jay Holmes, and John Scott!
Schools demonstrating students’ work:
John Dewey High School (JDHS), Rachel Carson High School (RCHS), Murrow High School, Maxwell CTE HS, PS 188, PS/IS 288, IS 228, IS 239, IS 281 and KECSS.
JDHS, RCHS, Murrow, IS 228, and IS 281 will orchestrate a launch of underwater ROVs!
Live Oyster Demonstration by PS/IS 288 & Bureau of Parks.
IT’S MY ESTUARY DAY SCHEDULE
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Schedule |
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8am |
Orientation and Education Stations
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9:30am |
Councilman Mark Treyger, Deputy Borough President
Diana Reyna, NYSMEA BMSEA Robotics Awards-Lane Rosen (JDHS) Dedication and Host Talks |
| 10:00am | Coastal Clean Up |
| Noon – 3pm | Lunch, Networking, Entertainment, More Service and Learning |
Be social!
Social media enables events and their planners to have long-term, nuanced, shifting interactions with attendees. Social participation during and after live events is a key factor in engaging your audience and establishing a sense of community.
We already have the hashtag: #itsmyestuary. Include it in all social messaging relevant to the event, any special content promoted on blogs or traditional media, as well as any physical promotional materials—such as posters or flyers—advertising the event.
https://www.facebook.com/makingwavesconeyisland
- https://www.facebook.com/BMSEA/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED&fref=nf
- http://www.facebook.com/NYCEcoSchools
- http://www.facebook.com/EcoSchoolsUSA
Estuary Day Hashtag: #itsmyestuary.
Use participants’ handles when you mention them on your tweets! Find below the Twitter accounts of some of the participants with social media presence:
- NYCDOE @NYCSchools
- John Dewey High School @JDHS_Dragons
- Edward R. Murrow High School @EdwardRMurrowHS
- NYC Department of Environmental Protection @NYCWater
- New York State Department of Environmental Conservation @NYSDEC
- NYC Partnerships for Parks @NYCParks
- NYC Department of Sanitation @NYCSanitation
- New York Aquarium @NYAquarium
- New York State Marine Education Association @NYSMEA
- Coney Island History Project @ConeyHistory
- US Navy Sea Perch Project @seaperch
- Billion Oyster Project @BillionOyster
- The Historical Diving Society @HDSUSA
- Japan Society of the Conservation of Horseshoe Crabs @japansociety
- CUNY Kingsborough Community College @CUNYkcc
- Science and Resilience Institute @ Jamaica Bay/New York Sea Grant @nyseagrant
- Waterfront Alliance – @OurWaterfront
- National Wildlife Federation Eco-Schools – @EcoSchoolsUSA
- Gotham Whale @gothamwhale
- Stem Pilot @STEMPilot
- CI Beautification Project @cibproject1
- American Littoral Society @littoralsociety
- PS/IS 288 Coney Island @288Eagles
- DOE District 21 @D21_Community
- Mark Twain IS 239 @twain239
- City Parks Foundation @CPFNYC
- Partnerships for Parks @PfPNYC
- NYC Organics @NYCzerowaste
Other participants:
New York Microscopical Society
American Littoral Society
Brooklyn Marine STEM Education Alliance
Captain Mike’s Diving
Community Board 13
Coney Island Beautification Project
Coney Island Explorers
Coney Island Girl Scouts & Boy Scouts
Cultural Research Divers
Historical Diving Society
NYC Department of Education, Department of STEM
IS 228, David A. Boody
IS 239, Mark Twain
IS 281, Joseph B. Cavallaro
Kingsboro Early College Secondary School
PS 188, Michael E. Berdy
PS/IS 288, The Shirley Tanyhill School
Rachel Carson High School for Coastal Studies
William Maxwell High School
Local Divers Union, 1556
New York District Council of Carpenters
STEM Pilot
South Brooklyn STEAM Engineering Pipeline
Horseshoe Crab Monitoring of NYC Parks-NRG