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Bay Area Wilderness Training is increasing access to the outdoors for Santa Clara educators, youth, and families by leading wilderness trainings and providing free outdoor equipment loans. BAWT Outdoor Leadership Trainings offers course scholarships for at-need educators and students in Santa Clara Valley. Free equipment for youth and leaders is administered through the South Bay Gear Library located in Milpitas to support educator-led trips in the South Bay.
The Authority contributed funds towards Guadalupe River Park Conservancy's environmental education program, which supports the use of the Guadalupe River Park as an outdoor lab to help familiarize children with the outdoors, instill a sense of environmental stewardship, and to teach hands‐on, standards‐based science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) lessons, with a special emphasis on serving students from Title One schools.
The Authority grant funded the San Jose State University Research Foundation's project, a signature CommUniverCity program, that aims to create a self-sustaining food system for low-income communities in Central San Jose where each child has opportunities to garden at a school garden or urban farm in their neighborhood. The program increases awareness of the importance of eating healthy, fresh foods, and promotes environmental stewardship among low-income children and their families.
