Events

With a lot of help from our friends at First National and and First National Bank Wealth Management. The Big Check for S.E.A. FAIR 2024, May 31st at CRMS. From Left to right: First Row: Michelle Curtis, First National Bank Vice President, Business Development and Community Development Officer, Sarah Doudera, S.E.A Board Member, Leland and Atlas...

Ainsley Ford, an 8th grader and salt water aquarium expert at Camden Rockport Middle School, wrote a winning grant application to the School District in October to get a tank at the middle school. In February the tank was set to go and now graces the cafeteria offering diners a window into our harbor habitat....

Press Release: June 11, 2023 For immediate release: Contact: Barbara Lawrence, 207-992-3039, info@StewardshipEducationAlliance.org Subject: S.E.A. FAIR 2023 S.E.A. FAIR 2023 goes to school Threat of thunder and lightning forced S.E.A. FAIR 2023 to move under cover to the Camden-Rockport Middle School gymnasium, but the result was a great event!  About 500 people attended to enjoy activities and...

Saturday, May 20, 2023,  a collection of young poets regaled an appreciative crowd with reading of poems written on windows in downtown Camden.   Casey Belcher, Hannah Kohlstrom, Reverie Dyer, Adassa Palmer, Maeve Schick-MacPherson, Cole Casas, Aria Madeira, Hallie Anderson, Audrey Page, Sebastien Toussaint, Piers Egan, Esme Black, Sydney Gaeth, and Kenzie Smith all had poems...

On December 2, 2022 an unlikely group of critters joined the festivities of Camden’s Christmas-by-the-Sea strolling the streets and handing out information about S.E.A. and salt water taffy from Uncle Willy’s Candy Shoppe. An octopus (Allie Van Ryn), a bear (Jenna Van Ryn), an otter (Barbara Lawrence), and a sea creature (Lynn Rutter), joined Santa...

On a glorious sunny day in early May, students from Watershed School and Camden-Rockport Middle School gathered at Camden Harbor dock with members of S.E.A. to learn about the environment of the harbor. Joee Patterson set the context with a talk at Watershed School drawn from her experience in Antarctica. Later, Watershed students went out...

Participating in Camden Windjammer Days gave S.E.A. the opportunity to meet many visitors to the event, tell then about the S.E.A. mission and work, and introduce the to the Mobile Marine Tank.  As is clear in the photographs, people of all ages were intrigued by the chance to interact with creatures that live in our...

         Three years ago, S.E.A. Board member Elphie Owen, who teaches at Camden-Rockport Middle School (CRMS), suggested we start Poetry On Windows. Who could have predicted that Poetry on Windows would so quickly become a local institution? Since 2020, each May over the Memorial Day weekend, poems about the environment appear magically...

       Rockport Library was the place for happy faces when Children’s Librarian Charlie Gluck invited the Stewardship Education Alliance to bring its Mobile Marine Tank with sea critters for a visit. S.E.A. Vice President Wayne Ruesswick, who built the tank, and Board Member Sarah Doudera introduced children and their parents to hermit crabs,...

Even wet weather couldn’t dampen enthusiasm for S.E.A. FAIR 2022, though it did delay it by a week. On Friday, June 10th, a lovely sunny day,  representatives of environmental organizations gathered at the Camden Public Library Amphitheatre to introduce children and adults to their work for good stewardship of our environment.      With the generous...