Thanks so much to Point72’s Finance department for joining us on Tuesday for a volunteer day. The hard working team put on gloves and got busy cleaning up the SoundWaters Harbor Site at Boccuzzi Park. Twenty-five employees helped us to repair the small boat docks, inventory life jackets, clean out portable classrooms, install a protective […]
Thanks so much to XL Catlin for all your hard work at the SoundWaters Harbor site in Boccuzzi Park today. The group cleared all the brush from the around the portable classrooms, repaired the small boat sailing dock, cleaned out and organized the classrooms, cleared out the brush and did a coastal cleanup. Thanks you […]
We are very pleased to share the news with you that SoundWaters was awarded a $30,000 grant from Impact Fairfield County. In a competitive process, more than 60 non-profit organizations applied for a series of Impact grants totaling $160,000 and we were honored to be selected as one of three finalists. We applied for the Impact […]
Today our SoundWaters Education team is heading to Torrington,CT for an in school study with their middle school. Later this spring, Torrington middle school will travel to the SoundWaters Coastal Center to learn about Long Island Sound. This will allow the students the chance to make comparisons between freshwater species that they might be familiar […]
Join us on Sunday, April 17 for an Art Show & Wine Tasting to benefit Greenwich Young Mariners Academy. Hosted by Marcos Torno at: Images of Old Greenwich, 202 Sound Beach Avenue, Old Greenwich. Proceeds from the sales of artwork and wine will benefit Young Mariners Academy, a program of SoundWaters that utilizes sailing to improve academic performance […]
Today is the second to last day of our girls in science program, Science Stars! This is an exciting week where girls from Stamford public schools come to SoundWaters every day during their school break. Featured image shows a student viewing the results of her plankton experiment. Over the week they hatched plankton and now […]
The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the flowers are blooming! While everyone has been enjoying the signs of spring we know and love, the 1st grade scientists conducting field studies at SoundWaters have been observing another, lesser-known sign of the change in seasons – the reappearance of plankton. Our students use special nets […]
Some of you may be collecting some colorful eggs today, so we thought we would talk about terrapin eggs! Most reptile eggs have a soft, almost leather like shell. Since terrapin bury their eggs in the sand, this leathery exterior allows for some flexibility while still protecting what’s inside. Featured Image is one of the […]
SoundWaters is excited to offer an afterschool sailing program to students from Turn of River,Scofield, and Rogers 6th-8th grade students this April –June! In this program the students will learn to sail on their own and navigate Holly Pond. If you have a middle school student from one of these schools, email aarent@soundwaters.org for an […]
As our terrapins grow, we are finally beginning to tell which are male and which are female. This differentiation can be made when a terrapin’s shell reaches a length of 10 centimeters. Three of our terrapins have reached this milestone, and we have discovered that we have two males and a female! You can tell […]
