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Education

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The Education Program of the Grand Bay NERR is an integrated program of life-long learning designed to educate a variety of audiences on the importance of wisely caring for estuarine (coastal) resources. Creating informed coastal stewards requires us to first instill a sense of place (a personal attachment) for our coastal areas within the members of our audiences. We do this through our Coastal Training, Community Education, K-12 and Collegiate Programs. In these programs, we pass on information gathered by our scientists and other researchers to our audiences through the use of hands-on learning methods both inside classrooms and out in the field. Whenever possible, we use the many habitats of the reserve as "living laboratories" so that our audiences can experience first-hand all the reserve's unique biological, geological, historical and cultural wonders.