Walkin' Jim Stoltz sings for TTEC

"Every day there is something that I experience that brings me joy, pauses me in wonder, amazes me in gratitude, thrills me in appreciation, and wraps me in beauty." Jim Stoltz

Walkin' Jim Stoltz is a long-distance hiker, artist, poet and musician and brought his beautiful songs and celebration of hiking to TTEC schools this past winter. His multi-media assemblies include sing-a-longs, stories and beautiful slides that are educational and entertaining, and left teachers and students with a greater appreciation of the environment and the Appalachian Trail.

Kate Fisher and Julie Judkins, Resource Program Manager for the Appalachian Trail Conservancy Asheville office, work together to control Japanese Knotweed along the AT on National Public Lands Day

WNC Woman Hikes AT in 57 days, 8 hours, 35 min

Hi everyone! Thought you would be interested in this article on a new AT record for an assisted hike on the AT. Becky and I hope to have Jennifer Pharr Davis come speak at our schools about her amazing hike. She beat the woman's record by 30 days and hiked 64.8 miles on her second to the last day!! Read about it at http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20080819/NEWS/125254

Kate

2008 TTEC Participants!

2008 TTEC Grant Opportunity

Grants of $500 - $1000 available to TTEC alumni and current participants.
Application due September 5.
Let me know if you need a copy of the announcement and application.
rita_hennessy@nps.gov

New Grant Opportunities

Kids In Need Foundation Accepting Applications for Teacher Grants
Grants - $500
Deadline: September 30, 2008
The School, Home, & Office Products Association Kids In Need
Foundation see www.kidsinneed.net


Students Invited to Submit Entries for 2009 SeaWorld/Busch
Gardens Environmental Excellence Awards
Grants - $10,000
Deadline: November 28, 2008
A program of the SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund
see www.swbg-conservationfund.org

WV photos

Greetings from the Babes in the Woods in Western North Carolina. I hope you are enjoying the last few days of summer vacation. Here is a link to more photos from our fabulous week in WV. http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/565048881tfnUbg and http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/564147682VtqUlr

I'd love to hear from those of you who took the podcast workshop. Our team members were busy with the mega-transect and backpacking. Now I'm thinking how nice it would be to create a report from our trip on a podcast so that it could be uploaded to the web to share with our partners. I finally bought an iPod and am ready to try it out. Any recommendations for info. on the web? I guess we could try PhotoStory again. For those of you interested in that program (which we used for our three minute presentation), it is a free download from Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx

longview/ kate e-mail: firepink17@gmail.com