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Bioregional Outdoor
Education Project (BOEP)

Outdoor Education for K-8 Teachers

Canyon Country
Youth Corps (CCYC)

Employment, Education, and Leadership

Southwest
Ed-Ventures (SWED)

Adventure Education with a Mission and Expert Guides

Discovery Institute for Conservation Education (DICE)

Place-based Learning about the Colorado Plateau

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To get involved with the FCS Capital Campaign for our new campus, the Canyon Discovery Center and its Discovery Institute for Conservation Education, please contact Four Corners School of Outdoor Education or read our Case Statement on the How You Can Help page.

Thank you.

Leadership

This project will benefit from the experience and leadership of Four Corners School of Outdoor Education that includes:

  • Four Corners School is a twenty-five-year-old non-profit with a long history of place-based programs that includes the Canyon Country Youth Corps, Southwest Ed-Ventures, and the Bioregional Outdoor Education Project. The new Discovery Institute for Conservation Education will be its fourth place-based outdoor education program.
  • Four Corners School has a track record of successful growth, from 1998 revenues of $428,000 to 2008 revenues of $1,034,114.
  • Four Corners School has received awards from the National Wildlife Federation for work on grazing reform (1992); the Utah Wildlife Society for Peregrine Falcon research (1993); the U.S. Forest Service for significant archaeological excavations on the Colorado Plateau (1995); the Utah Society for Environmental Education as the Environmental Education Program of the Year (1994, 1999, 2003, 2005); the Coleman Company as the Outdoor Education and Recreation Program of the Year (1999); the Governor of Utah's Medal for Science and Technology in science education (2001); the North American Association for Environmental Education (2001); the National Public Radio's E-Chievement Award (2001); the 2002 Olympics Committee Spirit of the Land Environmental Education Award; the Prescott College Desert Star Award (2003); the Governor of Utah's Watershed Improvement Award (2004); the BLM's State of Utah Public Lands Volunteer of the Year Award (2004); the Utah Society for Environmental Education as the Environmental Educator of the Year award (2005); National Geographic Traveler Magazine with one for 50 Great Trips of a Lifetime for our Southwest Safari Camps; and the Public Lands Service and Project of the Year awards from The Corps Network for our Dolores River Restoration Project (2009).