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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black;background:white">NOAA Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) program 2021-2022<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black;background:white">Funding competition is now open. Applications Accepted Until April 1, 2021. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black;background:white">To learn more about this year’s priorities and to apply visit the
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.noaa.gov/office-education/bwet__;!!KKphUJtCzQ!el97YjiXYetSbYKaAloIu7G32q_6RUdMML9DEsFxsiAl89k0sM08Z6xg3gTe7SxKKbEU$" target="_blank">
<span style="color:blue">website [noaa.gov]</span></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333;letter-spacing:.45pt">B-WET provides competitive funding to support Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences for K–12 audiences.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333;letter-spacing:.45pt">The NOAA B-WET program funds locally relevant, authentic experiential learning for K-12 students and educators through <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.noaa.gov/explainers/noaa-meaningful-watershed-educational-experience__;!!KKphUJtCzQ!azrlVOJ81a3TrN7O3eegHi9sN70VoIIBV6QK3CWAivQFexgxs1ndvGpLEojfh3-3XbiT_yqP$"><span style="color:#0A4595;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">Meaningful
Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEEs)</span> [noaa.gov]</a>. MWEEs are multistage activities that include learning both outdoors and in the classroom and aim to increase understanding and stewardship of watersheds and related ecosystems. Whether working with students
directly or providing professional development to educators, B-WET grants empower students to investigate local and global environmental issues that affect their lives, choices, and communities. Students identify actions to address these issues, enabling them
to help to understand, protect, and restore watersheds and related ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">B-WET Fact Sheet available here:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/PDF-2020bwetfactsheet-012621-BWET.pdf__;!!KKphUJtCzQ!azrlVOJ81a3TrN7O3eegHi9sN70VoIIBV6QK3CWAivQFexgxs1ndvGpLEojfh3-3Xde7M_zO$">https://www.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/PDF-2020bwetfactsheet-012621-BWET.pdf [noaa.gov]</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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