Written by Logan Rosenberg, youth programs manager It was a scene of absolute and wonderful chaos. Everywhere I looked, children were engaged in something different. One was sketching a spiderweb in his journal, diligently tracing the domed shape of the cobweb. Another sat on the dirt, flipping through a field guide to ferns, being helped [...]
To my fellow monarch enthusiasts, With the help of over three hundred community science volunteers, led by our dedicated and knowledgeable team of monarch educators, Tremont’s 2019 monarch tagging community science program was a huge success. We tagged 694 monarchs as they journeyed south to spend the winter in the Sierra Madre Mountains in [...]
With the help of passionate volunteers and partner organizations, our annual Spring Open House on May 24 was a huge success. This year's open house explored citizen science and community involvement at Tremont Institute and celebrated our 50th anniversary. The open house was an official Citizen Science Day event in partnership with the Citizen Science Association. [...]
Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont today announced a land purchase of 152 acres near Townsend, Tennessee. The property adjoins Great Smoky Mountains National Park and is being considered for a second campus for the non-profit organization that provides nature-based, experiential education programs to youth and adults. Since 1969, Tremont has provided residential programs in [...]
Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont (Tremont Institute) receives a $4,000 grant from the Gannett Foundation to support residential programs in Great Smoky Mountains National Park for Knoxville schools. “I love seeing our community come together to support students in this way,” says Catey Terry, President and CEO. “The grant from Gannett Foundation is a [...]
Every year, we monitor our breeding birds in Walker Valley by setting up a series of 12 m long soft mesh mist nets on our campus once or twice a week. We check the nets every 40 minutes, remove any birds that get caught, bring them back to our banding station for processing, and release [...]
Calling all educators! We are excited to provide a series of lessons that you can use as a teaching tool in your own classroom or schoolyard with your students. These lessons coordinate with academic standards and bring any subject outdoors. Why do black bears have thick fur, while salamanders have slimy skin? Why do owls [...]
Calling all educators! We are excited to provide a series of lessons that you can use as a teaching tool in your own classroom or schoolyard with your students. These lessons coordinate with academic standards and bring any subject outdoors. In a new environment, we rely on our senses to draw us in and put [...]
Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont receives $3,000 grant from Leadership Education Fund of East Tennessee Foundation to partially fund Tremont’s Environmental and Community Leaders Fellowship. The Environmental and Community Leaders Fellowship empowers young adults to build equitable access to green spaces, encourage excellence and personal leadership in public education, and find career opportunities in [...]
Tremont Institute is honored to participate in a national committee led by NatureBridge to collaboratively work through the question of how to most effectively incorporate Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) frameworks, research, and preferred practices into residential environmental education (EE) programming. The project is funded by the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation. Click here to [...]
