Creating extraordinary experiences for all kids
For over 40 years, The Greenway Foundation has introduced tens of thousands of children to the South Platte River through its SPREE program. SPREE aims to develop a positive relationship between the South Platte River and Denver area youth through school excursions, day camps, weekend events, internships, and summer employment.
Educating students through SPREE
Look at all we’ve accomplished in 2022.
Excursions
Our SPREE excursions finally headed back to the river! These field trips provide invaluable hands-on, experiential learning opportunities for Denver students. Researchers have found a number of trends demonstrating the positive impact environmental education has on learning, motivation, skill-building, and empowerment.
SPREE’s field trip program served nearly 4,000 in 2022, from many different backgrounds. 100% of these students receive scholarship pricing to ensure cost is never a barrier to this place-based learning.
Camps
When Denver Public Schools are out… SPREE is in! SPREE Camps were in full swing in 2022. We served over 400 campers by the river in Johnson Habitat park over 10 weeks of summer camp and 10 days of school break camp. With unique themes like Animal Olympics, Underwater Explorers, and Creepy Crawlers there was no shortage of fun while learning about the environment and campers were sure to have a blast completing our beaver boss, Chompers’ missions.
River Rangers
To start off the year, SPREE hired 6 River Ranger Interns from Kipp Denver Collegiate High School to teach at our in-person field trips- the first time since the pandemic started! Over the summer, we hired 4 high school River Rangers to teach full time at our summer camp! All 4 achieved their Environmental Educator certification through The Colorado Alliance of Env Education! TGF also awarded four $1,000 Joe Shoemaker Memorial scholarships to current and past Summer River Rangers to help with college tuition!
Greenway Leadership Corps
GLC had over 130 high school students from the Denver Metro Area participate in stewardship and outdoor adventures with GLC in 2022! Some of our favorite experiences included white water rafting down the Arkansas River, camping under the stars in Buena Vista, practicing survival skills & nature mindfulness at Cal-wood Education Center, planting trees at the Youth Exploring Stewardship Conference, and picking up over 50 large trash bags of litter from in and along the South Platte River!
Family Events
SPREE led and participated in many community family events this year. These events were free, and all encouraged families to get outside and create connections with nature, whether it be through an arts and crafts project, going fishing, or cleaning up a local park.
SPREE in the Community
SPREE consistently showed up for our community in 2022. A particular focus on historically marginalized-Denver communities led to events like HarvestSHARE in the Cole neighborhood and the Westwood Block Party. We held our annual Family Camp Out in Johnson Habitat Park, where we made dinner – and s’mores – over the fire, and taught families how to set up tents before sleeping under the stars. The Family CookOut was just as successful, with games and crafts and critter crawl – and of course more s’mores!
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