As the school year draws to a close, our high school senior interns here at SoundWaters are wrapping up their internship. Today, the interns from Darien High School participated in a poster session at their school where they presented the work they’ve done. Over the course of a month, these interns cared for our aquariums, helped […]
Over 60 Vineyard Vines employees joined us Wednesday for an afternoon of community service. Volunteer removed hundreds of staples, thumbtacks, and nails from the picnic tables, sanded the picnic tables, cleaned the canoes and dragons, spread wood chips, and cleaned the shoreline. Thank you so much for your hard work and we look forward to […]
In the midst of the process of graduating, high performing senior students from Darien, Greenwich, Stamford, and Scarsdale have been given the opportunity to gain real life career oriented skills in an internship program at SoundWaters. These interns have had the chance to work on a variety of tasks from canoeing, to managing our baby terrapins, […]
Every spring SoundWaters hosts seniors as interns for the last month of their senior year. This year we are fortunate enough to have 27 interns from a few schools in the area including Darien High School, Greenwich High School, Stamford High School and even Scarsdale High School in New York! The interns help with everyday aquarium […]
Join SoundWaters at the newly reimagined Juliska Flagship Store. Thursday, May 28th 5:00pm – 7:00pm Come for a sneak peek to sip, nibble and shop with 15% of the night’s proceeds benefitting SoundWaters Click here to RSVP
SoundGeneration found a nudibranch in their daily plankton research today! Nudibranchs are gastropod mollusks, more commonly known as sea slugs. They vary in size from 4 to 600 millimeters. There are 2, 300 recognized species in the world with many known for their colors and distinctive form. This was the first sighting of a nudibranch […]
The 4th graders from the International School at Dundee had two great sails today aboard the Schooner SoundWaters. The students rotated through a series of 4-labs studying plankton, water quality, nautical engineering, and human impact. They also raised the sails, hauled in the trawl net and discovered the many creatures that call Long Island Sound […]
SoundGeneration hosted their own booth this weekend at Stamford, or should I say STEMford, STEMfest this past weekend. STEMfest had a lot of activities for K-12 students both observational and interactive focusing on STEM. (STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics.) SoundGeneration didn’t miss the chance to spread the Long Island Sound word to Stamford with activities such as […]
Students from Jefferson Science Magnet School conducted the upland river component of their semester long science research project with SoundWaters. The students used underwater cores to collect samples of the river bed, tested the water quality and performed a soil filtration study.
On Friday, the 6th grade students of King Low Heywood collected their final data on the animals found in the rocky shore habitat of Cove Island Park! These students have been researching this habitat since the school year began, paying particular attention to the changing population of Asian Shore Crabs. Asian Shore Crabs are an […]
