Our Programs
Trinidad Water Festival
Held each May on the Trinidad State College Campus since 2012, the Trinidad Water Festival combines the top three items of our mission focus – youth, education and the environment – into an outdoor experiential education festival for all K-12 students in Las Animas County and beyond.
Students are scheduled in classroom-sized groups, rotating throughout the campus. Forty to fifty different interactive presentations engage the students and demonstrate or teach some aspect of the importance of water – how critical it is for our human health as well as for all life on the planet and how water affects almost every area of our lives. We ask three things of our presenters. We ask them to make their presentation 1) Informative, 2) Interactive, and 3) Fun.
Students learn lessons in conservation and stewardship – lessons we hope will be multiplied through family members, friends, and future children of these students.
Environmental Scholarships
We believe that investing in youth, education, and the environment is a strong strategy for protecting and improving our natural environment.
With that in mind, we have initiated an Environmental Scholarship Program which raises funds and awards scholarships to local students who are going on to college to study in any field that can benefit the natural environment.
Working closely with area high school counselors and our local selection committee, we solicit and review scholarship applications, grade and score each application, meet to interview scholarship applicant finalists, discuss relative merits of each applicant and make scholarship award decisions within our annual budget.