The Boys & Girls Clubs of Benton Harbor and the Benton Harbor Sunrise Rotary will hold a celebration Monday to unveil the new STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) Learning Platform, a project funded by a challenge grant from Rotary International District 6360. The project expands the creation of an outdoor science and technology resource area surrounding the Club’s Fettig Youth Campus into the woodlands adjacent to Ox Creek.
Volunteers and partners have already been working with elementary and middle school aged members of Boys & Girls Clubs to learn more about STEAM disciplines as a part of Phase I of the project. Activities completed include planting native landscaping gardens, bird and butterfly gardens, birdhouses, raised-bed gardens for fruits and vegetables, microscopes and trail cameras, and an environmental program to learn about water quality and the Ox Creek watershed.
Phase II is the construction of a nature observation platform built by Benton Harbor Sunrise Rotary volunteers.
The ribbon cutting for the new platform will be at 5:30 p.m. Monday at the Boys and Girls Club’s Fettig Youth Campus.
