Extra curricular

In spring 2023, MVSG started an afterschool club at the West Tisbury School called Bio*Kids for K-2 students. In fall 2023, we added a 4-H club called Seashore Explorers for the same age group in collaboration with the MV Ag Society. The aim of these clubs is to inspire young scientists with simple experiments, expose them to aquatic life, and teach them how to be better stewards of our marine environments. We also worked with local Girl Scouts & Boy Scouts to help them fulfill volunteer and badge responsibilities.

Classroom visits & shoreside tours

MVSG was able to reach over 700 students PreK- Grade 12 in the local school system to host demonstrations and share facts about water quality, shellfish benefits, salt marsh ecosystems, and the world of science.

For the first time in over 20 years, we hosted school kids at the John T. Hughes Research Station to build shoreside aquariums, peek inside our greenhouse hatchery & walk the Brush Pond Marsh with our Marine Biologists.

Community outreach

With funding from the Edey Foundation to build education toolkits, MVSG was able to diversify how we represent ourselves in the community. We worked with individuals, other conservation organizations on Island, community members & libraries, to teach people how to shuck, how to clam, how to restore eelgrass, and why we work so hard to “bivalvify” the waters around Martha’s Vineyard.