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DESCRIPTION:The Bay Area Science Alliance (BASA) provides information about science 
 events, exhibits, teacher resources, and providers such as formal K-12 
 education organizations, informal science centers, and institutions of 
 higher education in the greater San Francisco Bay 
 Area.\n\nhttp://www.basa.info/pub/basa_res/73\n\nMark Prado\nPosted: 
 01/17/2010 07:32:50 PM PST from IJ\n\nThe history of environmentalism is 
 rich in Marin, and there might be no story more compelling than that of the 
 STRAW program, which puts students in the middle of nature to help restore 
 it.\n\nThe history of the program - Students and Teachers Restoring a 
 Watershed - is documented in a film by San Anselmo's David Donnenfield, who 
 was looking to show the stories of environmental restoration work across 
 the nation.\n\n"It turns out we had this great program right in our own 
 backyard," he said.\n\nThat program was started in 1992 at Brookside 
 Elementary School in San Anselmo by fourth-grade teacher Laurette Rogers. 
 After showing her class a film on rainforest destruction, one student 
 raised his hand.\n\n"What can we do to help endangered species?" asked the 
 student, Jon Elliot, whose "simple question" pushed Rogers into 
 action.\n\nAt the time, Brookside School had made a commitment to undertake 
 an environmental learning project. Rogers and her students settled on a 
 project to help the California freshwater shrimp.\n\nThat morphed into 
 STRAW program, which is now run by the Novato-based Bay Institute, an 
 environmental advocacy group.\n\nSince its inception in 1992, the STRAW 
 program has seen 25,000 students participate, had almost 300 restorations 
 projects on rural and urban creeks, planted 25,000 native plants and 
 restored more than 20 miles of creek banks.\n\n"This program gave the kids 
 control," said Rogers, who now runs the $500,000 annual program - fueled by 
 donations\nAdvertisement\n- for the Bay Institute. "It was a case of the 
 students creating the path."\n\nElliot, now an adult living in San 
 Francisco, says the program forever changed the way he looks at the 
 environment.\n\n"As a fourth-grader it was exciting to see something that 
 made a tangible difference," he said\n\nput up 
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SUMMARY:Marin Civic Center>Doc. on the STRAW org. (Students and Teachers Restoring a Watersheds)
LOCATION:A Simple Question: The Story of STRAW http://www.asimplequestion.org/ (film 
 link) will be shown at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Showcase Theater at the 
 Marin Civic Center, 3501 Civic Center Drive in San Rafael. Tickets are $10 
 for the 35-minute film. Refreshments will be served and a panel discussion 
 will follow.\n\n
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