League to Launch Revamped Education Center in South Tahoe
On June 19, the League invites the public to our Summer Kickoff party, featuring the grand re-opening of our Fritzi & David Huntington Environmental Education Center in South Lake Tahoe. Featuring cutting-edge interactive displays, our Education Center’s overhaul will improve our ability to educate and engage the public about how to protect Lake Tahoe and the threats facing the Lake.
“After months of preparation, we’re thrilled to engage visitors of all ages with our new interactive exhibits,” said Jennifer Marshall, the League’s operations manager. “We’re confident visitors will enjoy our center’s new means of learning the history of Tahoe, its threats, and how they can become part of the solution and Keep Tahoe Blue.”
New exhibits will include an audio station sharing the stories of how League staff and volunteers brave winter weather to collect water quality samples during storm events as part of the League’s Pipe Keepers program, as well as eye-catching visual displays that portray the fragility of Tahoe’s beauty and invite visitors to join efforts to combat pollution and protect Tahoe’s shoreline.
“We look forward to engaging visitors with our new interactive exhibits,” said Gina Craig, the League’s education center assistant. “For example, one highlight will be an opportunity to visually identify the differences between the invasive aquatic plants that threaten Tahoe’s clarity and their native lookalikes using live plants.”
The League’s new educational displays have been designed by well-known exhibit developers Tisha Carper Long and Mary Jo Sutton. Long, who also develops electronic exhibits for the Tahoe Environmental Research Center, has provided her services in the past to the California Academy of Sciences, the Monterey Aquarium, the Oakland Museum of California, and the California Museum. Sutton, who is currently a concept planner for Nimbus Hatchery, has developed and provided conceptual design for the Oakland Museum of California’s renovated Natural Sciences Gallery, now called “Changing California.”
As part of the Summer Kickoff festivities, we will celebrate our intrepid volunteers and the agencies and organizations with whom we partner, thank our sticker businesses for their support, and invite the community to enjoy and learn from our new education center information stations.
Join us at this free event for a fun evening with food by Lighthouse Beach Grill, beer provided by Blue Moon, live music, activities and prizes, and a great community of people who care as much as you about Keeping Tahoe Blue.
RSVP to events@keeptahoeblue.org or call at 530.541.5388.
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