Mobilize Frederick Education Group

05/30/2026

Educators: Looking for new ways to bring hands-on science into your classroom next year? Consider applying for one of our professional development workshops this summer. Workshops take place at SERC's waterfront campus in Edgewater, Maryland, and in Washington, D.C. Applications due in early June (dates vary by workshop). See details below.

Growing Together (Aug. 10-14): Join us for a one-week workshop on how to incorporate nature play and nature-based learning into schools and classrooms. This workshop will split time between the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Smithsonian Gardens and the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. For early childhood educators (0-5 years old). $1500 stipend included. Apply by June 7.
Full details: https://s.si.edu/3Rsc40B

Data and Design (Aug 3-5): Learn how to use real-world environmental data and design thinking in the classroom with Cooper Hewitt, during a 3-day workshop at SERC. For middle and high school educators. $150 honorarium for participating. Apply by June 14.
Full details: https://s.si.edu/4u9FBJX

Build-A-Garden: Native Plants for the Classroom (July 22 and Aug. 7): Free one-day event at SERC to learn about our native plant research, try your hand at a pollinator STEAM activity and build a portable garden to use in your classroom or center. For 5th-12th grade educators. Offered on two separate days; same workshop both days. Apply by June 10.
Full details: https://s.si.edu/4dTCXSy

05/30/2026

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05/29/2026

Look at all these GREEN FLAGS!

What a great celebration of environmental stewardship and outdoor education at yesterday's MAEOE Youth Summit at Sandy Point State Park! EIGHT schools from Frederick County were awarded their Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education Green School certification! And the UMD Extension earned a Green Center certification. Plus, students from Frederick County comprise the MAEOE Youth Corps, which led several learning stations throughout the park.

Our team loves supporting these schools, teachers, and staff and assisting with this recognition event! Frederick County now has 19 Green Schools (a near quadrupling since we started this collaboration).

Congratulations to Frederick Adventist Academy, Frederick High School, Friends Meeting School, Lucy School, Mother Seton School, Thurmont Elementary School, Urbana Elementary School, Wolfsville Elementary School.

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05/09/2026

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04/30/2026

04/28/2026

Congratulations!!

Congratulations to Thurmont Elementary and Urbana Elementary for being the two latest FCPS communities added to the Maryland Green Schools program!

Both schools were newly certified in the Maryland Green Schools Program for 2025-26 by the Maryland Association for Environmental & Outdoor Education (MAEOE).

In addition, Wolfsville Elementary received the Sustainable Schools Award for 17 years as a Maryland Green School. Frederick High received its second Green School Award.

In Maryland, 702 schools are part of the Green School program, representing 34 percent of all Maryland schools. In total, FCPS has 15 Maryland Green Schools.

The students and staff at each Green School demonstrate and document their efforts to integrate sustainable environmental management practices, environmental education curriculum, professional development opportunities, and community engagement into daily operations.

FCPS Green Schools will be recognized at the Maryland Green Schools Youth Summit being held Thursday, May 28, at Sandy Point State Park.

04/28/2026