Recent studies have shown just how vital time outdoors is to childhood development. Our monthly youth nature program utilizes a unique teaching style called the 8 Shields Mentoring Model which combines child's passions and natural learning cycles to help your children build strong connections to nature while learning about themselves and the wild around them!

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Through excellently crafted nature and awareness games, exploration, and adventure your children will build essential skills and knowledge that they will carry with them for a lifetime. Curriculum topics include local edible, medicinal, and useful plants, natural navigation, wildlife ecology and animal tracking, sensory awareness exercises and more. 

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The program meets one Sunday a month for a total of 8 sessions from September - April. In order to ensure that our youth programs maintain the high quality that we are committed to, group size is limited to a maximum of 10 students per instructor.

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2023-24 Dates: 

September 24

October 22

November 19

December 17

January 21

February 18

March 24

April 21

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Time: 9:00am-3:00pm

Cost: $600 (full tuition due at the time of enrollment)

Location: Roy G. Guerrero Colorado River Metro Park, 400 Grove Boulevard, Austin, TX 78741

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Ages: 6-10 (age by 09/30/2023)

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Please note that all youth classes/programs are DROP-OFF classes. Parents do not attend.