Bridgeport Camp and Conference Center, Inc.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
The Bridgeport Camp and Conference Center is creating an Outdoor Education Program and is in need of an Nature Center accommodating 200 students. This center would serve as a place to hold and show specimens students can see and learn from. It would serve as a place to avoid unpredictable weather conditions that may cause scheduling problems. It would be a place that serves as a lab to extend field work such as using microscopes.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Outdoor Education Program
Our Mission:
Utilizing nature as our global resource and backdrop to collaborate, inspire, challenge, and educate.
We collaborate and partner with educational entities, provide environmental place-based opportunities for all learners, connect in-depth nature concepts and student centered inquiry and create technical outcomes to communicate the nature of education.
Challenge Course Program
Guiding diverse groups of people and group sizes through a
developed program and series of challenges that address group’s goals and objectives.
Hospitality Program
Provide meals, lodging and facilities to various groups for such events as weddings, retreats, reunions, sports events, birthday parties, conferences, and etc.
Summer Camp Program
This program hosts churches of the Northwest Conference for week long camps through out the whole summer. Each week children, youth, and adults experience a loving Christian community in hope that they may be shaped by God’s grace through opportunities such as; bible studies, special events, swim time, team building, fishing, talent shows, archery, games and much more.
Where we work
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our Outdoor Education Program goals are to utilize our outdoor amenities to help 10 or more area school districts through out the year with their school's curriculum needs for inquiry place-based outdoor experiences providing students comparable opportunities of larger school districts that have their own learning centers such as Denton, Dallas, and Ft. Worth. We want to build a Nature Center to help bring students from an ordinary and limited classroom to a place they can study a variety of things such as engineering, natural resources, physics, literature, chemistry, earth science, history, social studies, art, mathematics, and much more with a real life application and hands on experiences. Learning can be so much fun!
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
-Hire a certified teacher for the Outdoor Education Director to head the program.
-Create a logo and mission.
-Meet with a contractor for the costs of a Nature Center.
-Get permission from the Texas Forestry Association to use Project Learning Tree curriculum (grades PK - 8th).
-Get permission from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to be apart of Texas Aquatic Science and the Certified Field Site program (grades 6-12th).
Next
-Create website and brochure.
-Contact schools and teachers for dates they can come.
-Find grants and funds to build our Nature Center.
-Find grants and funds for lab equipment such as; microscopes, ipads, show cases, etc.
-Partner with local community college to start a program with students who want to be educators to come teach out here for experience and credits.
-Providing teacher Professional Development hours in Outdoor Education.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Bridgeport Camp and Conference Center is on 200 acres of land that is perfect for a Nature Center and has a variety of evergreen and deciduous trees, native grasses and plants, animal and insect species and ecosystems. It has water front access, fossils, and food services for if needed. Approximately 165 first grade students and their teachers have already participated in an Exploration Day for the past 4 years and this year we are expecting approximately 160 second grade students and teachers to participate in an Exploration Day. We also have interest from a high school science teacher that wants to bring her classes out.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
-We have hired a certified teacher for the Outdoor Education Director to head the program.
-We have created a logo and mission.
-We have met with a contractor for the costs and designed a layout of a 32,000 square foot Nature Center.
-We have gotten permission from the Texas Forestry Association to use Project Learning Tree curriculum (grades PK - 12th).
-We have gotten permission from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to be apart of Texas Aquatic Science and the Certified Field Site program (grades 6-12th).
Next
-Create website and brochure.
-Contact schools and teachers for dates they can come.
-Find grants and funds to build our Nature Center.
-Find grants and funds for lab equipment such as; microscopes, ipads, show cases, etc.
-Partner with local community college to start a program with students who want to be educators to come teach out here for experience and credits.
-Providing teacher Professional Development hours in Outdoor Education.
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Bridgeport Camp and Conference Center, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 08/16/2017
Cheryl Murphy
Rene Lawson
Meredith Hinton