"We're hoping that they will turn into the next generation of stewards of these spaces into the future and create long lasting relationships with these waterfront parks," said Luis Gonzalez, the associate director for environmental education at the City Parks Foundation.
"Some of these students don't have access in their communities to these programming types, and they also can learn science in a hands-on, experiential way, a student-centered model," Gonzalez said.
"It was actually this program that inspired me to want to be a vet," said rising seventh grader Izabelle Konstantinovsky.
"When you're doing it, you don't even realize that you're learning till the end of the day when you're just like, 'Wow, I know so many more things now,'" said Sebastian McKinney, a rising ninth grader.
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