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COLORADO WATERSHED NETWORK research • education • conservation June 13, 2008 Ms. Tammie Petrone Colorado Water Conservation Board Office of Water Conservation and Drought Planning Grant Coordinator 1313 Sherman St., Room 721 Denver, CO 80203 Dear Ms. Petrone, Please consider the Colorado Watershed Network's 95% completion progress report for the Project WET grant, prepared in accordance with the Water Efficiency Grant program requirements. This progress report discussed the successes and challenges encountered thus far during the grant term. Project Tasks Completed Task I. Hire Water Education Coordinator: Jo Scarbeary was successfully hired to coordinate the following grant tasks and serve as the Colorado Project WET Coordinator. Task II. Volunteer Management: Two 16 hour New Facilitator Trainings were scheduled and implemented in partnership with partners Project WILD and Project Learning Tree. A total of 49 new Project WET facilitators were trained on April, 2008 in Gunnison and May, 2008 in Aurora. Support of newly trained facilitators is ongoing throughout the grant term. Support for existing facilitators has been ongoing throughout the grant term. A total of 199 facilitators participated in annual Facilitator Leadership Conferences held in February and September 2007 in La Junta and Snowmass. These facilitators received 16 hours of leadership training at each conference and had a chance to learn new facilitation techniques from the State Coordinators and from other experienced facilitators. Several volunteer facilitators received recognition and awards for outstanding volunteer service to Project WET. Recruitment and training of educators in the Project WET Curriculum and Activity Guide has been ongoing throughout the grant term. A total of 630 teachers from around the state have been trained by certified Project WET volunteer facilitators through a total of 23 workshops and training events. Evaluation of the program has been ongoing throughout the grant term. All Project WET workshop participants are required to complete a comprehensive two page evaluation of their training experience and the Project WET materials. Over 70% of Project WET workshop participants indicate that they intend to use the lessons on a monthly basis and 95% rated their workshop experience as "excellent".Amore sophisticated database, which will allow for long term communication and evaluation of workshop participants, is currently under construction with partners Project WILD and Project Learning Tree. The Project WET coordinator has also worked to reduce barriers to teachers implementing Project WET in the classroom. The surveys, workshops, facilitator trainings, and conferences have all focused on identifying and reducing barriers by providing strategies to make Project WET activities locally relevant, connecting teachers with local experts and field trip opportunities, and offering educators hands-on demonstration practice of activities during trainings. Project WET is also excited to be working with Aurora Public Schools to directly