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1 | FRIDAY - OCTOBER 2, 2026 | ||||||
2 | Exhibit Hall Hours: 8:00 a.m - 5:00 p.m. in Conference Ctr Lobby | Silent Auction Hours: 8:00a.m. - 5:00p.m. in Suite C | ||||||
3 | EXPERIENCES 8:30 - 11:30 a.m. | STURGEON RELEASE | PLENARY 1:00 - 1:50 p.m. | SESSION 1 2:00 - 2:45 p.m. | SESSION 2 3:00 - 3:45 p.m. | SESSION 3 4:00 - 4:45 p.m. | |
4 | Suite A | Climate Conversations Workshop; Booth *Pre-registration Required | Picnic with a Sturgeon 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM openhouse Paddlers' Landing at Mott Park Recreation Area | Welcome by: MAEOE President Lauren Westerman & State Senator John Cherry Plenary Presentation from Featured Speaker: Doug Larson, Michigan State University "Lake Sturgeon Restoration in Michigan" Expo Center at UM Flint Riverfront Conference Center | Pushing for Zero Waste: Eliminating cafeteria waste; Emmerling, Miller, & Lutze | Place-Based Teaching with USDA/NRCS Web Soil Survey; Lilienfeld | Got Ospreys? Using local phenomena for place-based learning; Wenger |
5 | Suite D | Project WET: People and Water Workshop; Catanese & Boekestein *Pre-registration Required | Show Me the Money: An introduction to grant writing; Sanker & Sanborn | Living on the Edge: Discovering place with the Ecosystem Dynamics Game; Hartzell & Bokach | Getting Started with Watershed Literacy in K12; Prince | ||
6 | Suite H | Field Experiences Meet at your assigned Field Experience Location at 8:15a.m. *Pre-registration Required | Urban Heat Islands: Helping students see what makes a difference; Chapman | Awareness to Action: MDHHS Environmental Health Learning Lessons; Medes & Castle | |||
7 | Boardroom A | EEC Capstone Projects: Operation Rewild; Schilstra | EEC Capstone Projects: Lessons at the Feeder; Botting Conservation at Home Camp; Morningstar | EEC Capstone Projects: Apple Island Project; Tianen Protect our Native Pollinators!; Kaddis | |||
8 | Suite E | Education for Sustainability: Project-, place-, and justice-based learning; Stockdill & Gochis | Conquering Curriculum: A systems thinking approach to program planning; Wiers | ||||
9 | Outdoor | Why Urban Forestry Matters: In the community and in the classroom; Stay & Law [meet outside at Riverfront Plaza to start] | |||||