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Hudson River Valley Environmental Education Institute (HRVEEI) is the new umbrella name for programs at Beczak Environmental Education Center and Kathryn W. Davis RiverWalk Center.
HRVEEI staff work with approximately 20,000 children and families each year in river-based programming. In addition to ongoing weekday classes for students, public programs include River Explorers and Fish Tales for children, RiverTalks lectures and Urban H2O concerts for adults, RiverWalkArt for all ages, Summer Adventures, Fishing the Hudson, and other school recess programs, and professional development for educators. |
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Summer Adventures 2013
Session 1: 7/15 - 7/19 (ages 10 - 13)
Session 2: 7/22 - 7/26 (ages 6 - 9)
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Beczak Environmental Education Center is a well-loved river exploration center in Yonkers that has been offering programs for adults and children at their Center, in the community and in schools for over twenty years. Its name honors Joe Beczak, one of the Hudson River enthusiasts who taught children about the Hudson in the 1970s.
This spacious interpretive center is an adaptive reuse of the former Social Club for Habirshaw Cable & Wire. Its two-acre park features a welcoming riverfront lawn, an easily accessible tidal marsh and a beach used for river exploration and seining.
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HRVEEI offers weekday education programs for students and RiverWalkArt afterschool and on weekends at this newly restored facility in Sleepy Hollow, NY. It features two classrooms, a sandy Hudson River Beach with magnificent views of the Haverstraw Bay, and an open-air pavilion at the upper level.
Scenic Hudson spearheaded the renovation of the 1926 Kingsland Point Bathhouse, named for philanthropist Kathryn W. Davis. It is on the planned 51-mile county RiverWalk, and adjacent to the Kingsland Point Park and the 1883 Lighthouse at Sleepy Hollow.
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We believe that all children need to safely interact with the natural environment for healthy development. Our engaging, interactive learning programs are built on this principle.
One of the primary goals of Beczak is to show even our youngest visitors that the river is part of a complex ecosystem that nurtures an amazing diversity of living things, including people.
Beczak offers an extensive curriculum of interactive educational programs designed to teach students about the complexity of the Hudson River and inspire them to become better stewards of this magnificent resource. Each year more than 5,000 school-age children visit Beczak on class trips and with youth organizations. Many more children and adults come to our Interpretive Center as a family, or to one of our many public events or adult programs.
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All our staff members are trained educators with specialized degrees in fields such as marine biology, psychobiology, environmental studies, and educational technology.
By creating interdisciplinary programs that meet the New York State Department of Education standards for science, social studies, math, art and English language arts, Beczak educators help animate important concepts that many teachers have introduced in their own classrooms.
Regardless of audience age or educational objective, all of our programs are designed to make learning fun, utilizing interactive techniques and small class size to ensure participation.
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Beczak Environmental Education Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating people about the ecology, history and culture of the Hudson River.
Founded in 1989, Beczak traces its roots back to the 1970s, when Yonkers resident Joe Beczak and a handful of other local Hudson River enthusiasts volunteered to offer canoeing lessons to local Boy Scouts.
The “Beczak” name and organization were incorporated on February 1, 1989. The program has evolved considerably since then. While canoe lessons are no longer part of the curriculum, children and adults throughout the region have benefited from Beczak’s extensive offering of indoor and outdoor interactive educational experiences. Currently, Beczak conducts more than 300 separate experiential educational programs annually for 5,000+ children. These numbers are expected to grow steadily in the years ahead.
In 2004, Beczak opened a new 3,800-square-foot riverfront interpretive center. With a sandy beach and its own tidal marsh just steps away from the building, Beczak provides the community with an indoor and outdoor classroom where young and old alike can “touch the river” and learn about the natural world.
Beczak has come a long way from a handful of volunteers teaching children how to canoe. But it has never strayed from its focus: educating people about their natural environment, which ensures a connection which will benefit them – and their communities – for generations to come.
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