Welcome to the 2024 Texas Children in Nature Network Summit held in Waco, Texas!
After registering for the Summit and making your Wednesday Workshop selection, you will be enrolled in your selected workshop by TCiNN staff. You will see your workshop on your schedule after you have been enrolled.
You do not need to select and add your workshop to your schedule.
All workshops are "frozen" and only staff can manage enrollment.
If you do not see a workshop option on the registration form that is listed on the workshop PDF, that means it is full and no longer available.
Concurrent Sessions and additional Summit details will be added as the Summit approaches so please check back to see what’s new and to build your Summit schedule.
Presenters: Christine Jacobs, Acting Superintendent - National Park Service, Raegan King and Kaitlyn Holyfield - City of Waco, Staff - Mayborn Museum-Baylor University, Priscilla Martinez and Hector Sabido - Waco Mammoth Foundation Location: Waco Mammoth National Monument, 1-4 p.m. 6220 Steinbeck Bend Drive, Waco, TX 76708 Strands: Formal & Informal Education, Community Engagement & Partnership, Nature for All
Visit Waco Mammoth National Monument where the National Park Service (NPS) paleontologist will give a tour of an active excavation of Pleistocene Columbian mammoths. This phenomenal site is supported through a partnership with the National Park Service, City of Waco, Baylor University, and the Waco Mammoth Foundation. These partnerships are vital to the Monument, and representatives from all partner representatives will discuss their role in the partnership including different ways students interact with the site’s resources. Each presenter will also provide some best practices and tips that may help develop new partnerships.
Participants will have the opportunity to ask the panel questions about both the highlights and potential difficulties involved in developing partnerships. While there are often bumps in the road, sites like Waco Mammoth National Monument would not exist without the constant support of all partners. The hope is that participants will take these discussions home and begin brainstorming future partnerships to help students of ALL ages get more connected with nature.
*There is little indoor space at Waco Mammoth, please come prepared for outside conversations. In the event of extreme weather, the partner presentations may be moved offsite.
