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The 13th Annual EENC Conference is titled “Discovering Hidden Treasures in the North Carolina Piedmont.” This title drives an overall theme for the conference, which will provide you and other environmental educators with opportunities to explore and connect with an often overlooked but vital natural region of our state, while also allowing you to discover hidden treasures of the environmental education field, including fellow educators, current issues and effective environmental education tools and techniques. Conference offerings will be presented along four main strands:

(1) Piedmont Treasures: Experiencing the natural wonder of the place you’re in
(2) Our Fellow Environmental Educators: Sharing hidden talents, new ideas and proven techniques
(3) The Gift of Diversity: Integrating educators and students from diverse backgrounds
(4) Walking the Talk: Discovering ways to live what you teach

The conference will take place September 6 – 8, 2003 at the Haw River Program site (HARP) in Brown Summit, North Carolina. This site is ideally located in the central Piedmont region of North Carolina, providing an awe-inspiring natural setting including one of the largest remaining natural wetlands areas in the state. HARP is an environmental education program committed to immersing students in an engaging, informative, entertaining and inspiring curriculum that nurtures a lifelong respect for the relationships within our natural environment. The HARP staff is committed to “greening” Brown Summit, and they provide many examples of how to live and teach in environmentally sustainable ways. The site provides both onsite lodging and meeting space as well as forest, wetland, and lake areas to explore.

Join us for a great weekend of learning and fun in the heart of North Carolina!