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Thank You UBS!

Thanks so much to the team from UBS for joining us on Friday to help get the Harbor Campus ready for the campers arriving today.  They put a fresh coat of paint on the new portable classroom, added a big pop of color with the container gardens, helped to move the small boats out to […]

Terrapin Times

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Thank You UBS!

Thanks so much to UBS for all your hard work on Friday at the Harbor Campus! The old fence surronding the Harbor Campus came down in record time, the dock is almost ready for the small boats, the small have been cleaned, and the small boat pen has never looked better. Thanks so much for all […]

Thank you Point72!

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 […]

Thank you XL Catlin

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 […]

SoundWaters receives $30,000 grant from Impact Fairfield County

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 […]

SoundWaters education team ventures up the watershed!

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 […]

Art Show & Wine Tasting to benefit Greenwich Young Mariners Academy

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 […]

Science Stars is in full swing!

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 […]

Signs of Spring!

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 […]