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Headlands Institute
Headlands Institute inspires youth with passion for nature and the desire to care for the environment. We partner with the National Park Service to offer hands-on, field-based science programs in the Marin Headlands. Over the past 31 years, we have served more than a quarter of a million children from through out the Bay Area and beyond.
Nature is our classroom. From our campus on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, we engage participants in exploration of the unique rock formations, coastal hills, ponds, and tidepools protected within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
Headlands Institute is dedicated to serving culturally and economically diverse youth. We strive to make our programs culturally relevant and available to participants regardless of economic status.
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School Programs » We offer 2 to 5 day residential programs for grades K-12 featuring hands-on, inquiry-based science education in the national park. |
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Conference Center » Just 10 minutes from San Francisco, we offer meeting space, overnight accommodations and food service for groups of 10 to 200. |
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Coastal Camp » Our summer day camp for grades 1-9 helps campers connect with the natural world through exploration, art, games, and more. |
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TEAM Program » Our year round internship is designed to help high school students grow as leaders and develop teaching skills. |
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Family Programs » We offer a variety of hikes and nature programs for the entire family. Learn more about the Marin Headlands and help your family connect to the natural world.
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PRINTIf you have a child between the ages of 3 and 11, now is the time to book your 2010 summer camps. An outdoors summer camp would be an even better choice. With busy controlled scheduled lives, few families really enjoy the nature that's available to them and the outdoors take a back seat, becoming a distant vacation dream. This is why outdoors camps are so important for our children. They offer them the possibility to enjoy a rare pleasure: running wild outside. Read the full story at www.examiner.com
Here is the lowdown on the "local and seasonal" version of outdoors camps: camps with a solid dose of environmental education and Bay Area nature. These camps all have one thing in common. Since they are based on exploration of our immediate environment, they will take your child outside a lot. The idea is precisely to discover nature's little secrets in a fun way.
"We seek to inspire and cultivate a meaningful connection to the natural world in the lives of our campers through outdoors explorations, hands-on learning opportunities, creativity and play," says Christina Loehnig of the Headlands Institute. Bring on the next green generation! Read the full article at www.examiner.com.
The Center for Volunteer and Nonprofit Leadership awarded the Heart of Marin Award for Nonprofit Excellence last week to the Headlands Institute, the 32-year-old residential environmental education nonprofit located on the shores of Rodeo Beach.
The award, sponsored by Autodesk, comes with a $5,000 award that will support scholarships that allow students from economically disadvantaged communities to attend Headlands Institute’s environmental field science programs.
Read the full article at www.marinscope.com.
The Center for Volunteer and Nonprofit Leadership today awarded the Heart of Marin Award for Nonprofit Excellence to Headlands Institute, the 32-year-old residential environmental education nonprofit located on the shores of Rodeo Beach. The Award for Nonprofit Leadership is sponsored by Autodesk and comes with a $5,000 award, which will support scholarships that allow students from economically disadvantaged communities to attend Headlands Institute's environmental field science programs.
In a world of iPhones, Facebook and Kindles, technology has people spending more face time with the cold, blue glow of computer screens than with the warm, flushed faces of our human companions. Intel Corporation – the world’s leading silicon innovator and computer chipmaker – is helping to connect Bay Area students and educators back to the soil. Read the full story at thewesternedition.com»
Environmental educators at the Headlands Institute, tucked into eight aging buildings on seven acres at historic Fort Cronkhite, are preparing to honor the past as they move into the future. Read the full story at marinij.com»
In July, Headlands Institute's Conference and Retreat Center welcomed teens, college students, and young people to the first Natural Leaders Network Summit. An initiative of the Children & Nature Network, the Natural Leaders Network is comprised of youth from across North America dedicated to increasing the presence of nature in the lives of people and actively campaigning against nature-deficit disorder.
Headlands Institute's Conference and Retreat Center recently hosted 75 educators from around the country at the annual Discovery Educator Network National Institute. The institute trained educators to integrate digital media and educational technologies into the classroom.
Last week Headlands Institute’s Science and Environmental Education Development (SEED) program held its annual Summer Institute on Environmental Education. The week was a great success with 25 teachers from the Bay Area and around the United States in attendance at the Headlands Institute.
On August 9th Headlands Institute's Teen Environmental Action Mentorship (TEAM) will kick off its thirteenth year with a weeklong training for fourteen new interns and two returning interns from Marin and San Francisco.
Children who spend time outdoors are believed to develop increased concentration, memory, creativity, and are more likely to have lifelong good health. Headlands Institute promotes children spending time outdoors with its programs for youth.
Read the full article »During a visit to Headlands Institute, Campbell Upper Middle School students decide to make thank you cards for oil spill clean up crews working on Rodeo Beach. Read the full article »
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Headlands Institute
1033 Fort Cronkhite
Sausalito, CA 94965
tel 415.332-5771 | fax 415.332.5784