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The Master Gardener Community Education Center at Martial Cottle Park: Supporting the Environment at Your Own Home is a project that will create a multi‐generational Community Educational Center that will help individuals and families to become stewards of nature and to grow healthy food year‐round using environmentally sound gardening practices.
The Authority helped fund the Children's Discovery Museum's new "Bill's Backyard" project, which is a 27,500 square foot outdoor nature education center adjacent to the existing facility. This innovative space will inspire children and their families to spend time outside, exploring the wonders and joys of building, exploring, climbing, rolling, digging, and getting dirty.
The project supports 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.
