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Year One: Learning About Communities
The first year of NEC focuses on helping participants gain comfort in the outdoors, develop friendships, and learn about the natural world and environmental justice on an introductory level.
Year Two: Investigating Communities
This year builds upon the learning and comfort of the first year, inviting students to ask deeper questions about the ecology and history of the Walnut Creek Wetland Park and Southeast Raleigh. There will be an extended outdoor experience at the end of the year.
Year Three: Impacting Communities
In the third year, students explore ways to create positive environmental change where they live. While learning about many ways people make change, students build skills to take action for their local ecosystems and communities. There will be an overnight camping experience at the end of the year.
NEC Application
Apply for the Neighborhood Ecology Corps
Complete this application to become part of the NEC, learn about the outdoors, create lasting friendships, conduct field experiments, take field trips, and more!
