Education

The next generation of conservationists

Showing students that a career protecting land and water is real, reachable, and theirs for the taking.

Our education program

Bridging passion and possibility

Many of today’s youth are passionate about pursuing careers in the environmental field, yet they often lack a clear understanding of the paths and opportunities available to them.

Broad Water Innovations addresses this gap by working directly with students, highlighting their potential to take meaningful action in preserving natural resources through ecological restoration — and how both public and private investment play a vital role in protecting our environment’s most valuable assets.

BWI’s education program connects with high-school students in AP and IB Environmental Science courses, offering real-world insight into careers in ecological restoration and stewardship. Throughout the year, we organize panels of industry professionals who visit classrooms, and invite students into the field to experience restored ecological sites firsthand.

If you want to work at a computer building plans for stream and wetland restoration, there is a job for you in this space. If you’d rather throw on your muck boots and do stem counts and monitoring in the field every day, there is a job for you in this space.
Tee ClarksonExecutive Director, Broad Water Innovations
Two paths, one mission

There is a place for everyone

At the computer

Designing restoration plans, modeling watersheds, mapping habitat, and managing the science behind every project.

In the field

Muck boots on — running stem counts, monitoring banks, and doing the hands-on work that brings land back to life.

How we show up

Our program, all year long

Classroom Panels

Industry professionals visiting AP & IB Environmental Science classrooms.

Field Days

Students on restored ecological sites, seeing stewardship firsthand.

Summer Internships

Hands-on, real-world experience in ecological restoration.

Scholarship

Direct support for students pursuing environmental studies.

Beyond the classroom

Investing in the science

Broad Water also helps fund research that advances wetland and stream restoration — putting real resources behind the science that makes this work better.

Now accepting applications

BWI Environmental Studies Scholarship

A $2,500 award for a student pursuing environmental studies and a future in conservation.

Deadline: June 1 Apply: jessica@broadwaterinnovations.org
Apply now
Educators & students

Bring Broad Water to your classroom

Hosting a panel, planning a field day, or curious about internships or the scholarship? Send a note — it goes straight to Jessica.