Y-LINC 2013: Day One

Bienvenidos Amigoes! Welcome Friends!

Working in the idyllic SFA High Gardens, providing a green
break in the scenery for its students as well as food.

Our kids began the journey today with a service-learning project at Stephen F. Austin High School in Houston, where they worked on their school garden. That garden is part of a Project Learning Tree Greenschools! program. Greenschools! in a nutshell is a project in which a team of students investigates how their school impacts the environment, develops a plan to mitigate that impact, and implement their plan with grant funds from Project Learning Tree, thus making their school that much more environmentally friendly.

FNFGT has spurred similar efforts at Lantrip Elementary, as part of our "Greenschools Grapevine Initiative", which enables a student attending the schools in that Grapevine to get multiple chances to participate in impacting their school in meaningful ways. Y-LINC campers planted seedlings at Lantrip's garden. which again was part of a Greenschool project.

Then the students toured Nature's Way Biofuel plant, priming their minds for recycling and showing them how waste does not have to be wasted. Then, the +Texas A&M Forest Service gave them a tour of the +Red Cockaded Woodpecker habitat at the W.G. Jones State Forest in Conroe. Thanks goes out to Alex Schlueter and Ezequiel Villa for their expertise!

The kids still had energy even when
they arrived at HQ, around 7:00pm.

While they were on their trips this morning, Lyndi and Dave were getting some finishing touches ready at HQ, including filling 7+ water containers. Texas is hot, and we want are kids to be safely hydrated for their adventure. 

Our kids are learning real life skills here at Y-LINC: some helped to set the tables, brought down chairs and cleaned the dishes! Tomorrow, they will be assigned to the chores that make an event like this run smoothly by their youth leaders; everyone will get a chance to help with cooking food and cleaning up.

+Tracy Sanchez and +Naielli Hidalgo had their tents up first!

Though the light was waning, our Y-LINC campers pitched their tents and got settled in for the night, ready for what tomorrow has in store. They will be hiking, fishing, getting organized, and will get to meet Dale Synder, a FS wildland firefighter.

Dinner under starry strings of lights and solar lanterns.

We now got a photo album on Flickr! Check it out here! We also have convenient links all our social media sites in the top left, and visit our main page for more info! Like us, Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn, and subscribe to this blog for more updates!

Orientation provided by +David Clipson,
+Tamberly Conway and +John Boyette

Special thanks to our donors! Without you, Y-LINC would be alot less fun!

+Stephen Kob - Supporter

+David Clipson - Supporter

+Tamberly Conway - Supporter and Donor

+Warren Conway - Supporter and Donor

+Ed McClure - Supporter 

+Tracy Sanchez - Supporter, Donor and Fundraiser

+Alma D. Garcia - Supporter and Donor

+Anthony Gonzalez - Supporter

+Lorraine Gibson - Supporter and Donor

Powered by Fundly