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14th Annual
Spokane Youth Environmental Conference
May 24, 2011 - Spokane Community College

Ideas, Investigation, Innovation...For a  Better World

The vision for the Spokane Youth Environmental Conference (SYEC) is to promote the environmental sciences by encouraging students to conduct scientific investigations. While providing them a venue to showcase their environmental research project. The conference is a one day event for students in Spokane County , grades 7-12. Students experience a day of hands-on environmental education. They learn from each other about local and global environmental issues and actions that can be taken to help address these issues. 

Conference organizers consist of scientists, communicators and educators. For the past 14 years, they have been working on ways to improve students’ presentation skills and their exploration into science.

The Conference is designed to:

• Encourage students to do real scientific investigations.
• Provide students a forum to share their projects with their peers.
• Through oral presentations and visual poster exhibits, students learn from each other about environmental issues and about concrete actions they can take to address these issues.
• Enable students, through their active participation, to demonstrate their mastery of the Science and Language EALRs.
• Work towards meeting the Grade Level Expectations for math, reading and science.
• Complete culminating projects for seniors if applicable.

In addition, the conference organizers can also be used as resources to connect with environmental organizations that can help assist with mentors, data, resources or community service hours the students may need to complete their projects.

SYEC 2010 - It Was A Great Conference! 
 
Science girls and superior winners from CVHS!

Over 120 students participated in the 2010 conference!  Thirty-five students earned "superiors" for their environmental science projects.  Students earning superior awards receive a gift certificate to Auntie's Bookstore.

SYEC recipient of 2009 Science Education Advocate Award: Washington State Leadership and Assistance for Science Education Reform (LASER)

This conference is made possible by the generous support from local businesses and organizations.