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incorporate Project WET into their curriculum, as is described in more detail below. This action will remove a large number of barriers to Project WET being used in this, and potentially other, school districts. Task III. Partnership Projects: The Colorado Project WET Coordinator has maintained and strengthened relations with the Project WET International Foundation through regular communication and by attending the National Project WET annual conference, held in Tucson, AZ during June 2007. Collaboration with the key partners, Colorado Project WILD and Project Learning Tree, has been ongoing throughout the grant term. Intensive dialogue between the three "Sister Projects" has taken place to outline the new partnership potential now that Project WET has secured future funding from the CWCB to continue operation in Colorado. New relationships with universities and institutions of higher learning have been initiated to support pre-service teachers. Workshops have been conducted in partnership with the University of Northern Colorado, Metro State College, Fort Lewis College and several other pre-service teacher training locations during the grant term. The Project WET coordinator has also provided support and participated as a leader in water education and conservation education efforts statewide and served as a representative of Colorado at the national level. Statewide leadership has included working with Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education, being a representative on the Colorado Water Education Task Force, presenting to stormwater and water conservation communities, and working with water providers across the Front Range. The coordinator has worked with other statewide coordinators across the country and attended the National Project WET conference. She is also attending this years' conference in June of 2008 and will be participating in a revision of the Project WET Curriculum and Activity Guide. Task IV. Provide Materials and Resources: Project WET curriculum guides have been distributed, through workshops and other venues, to 630 educators throughout Colorado. Volunteer facilitators received training in strategies to localize Project WET lessons and activities which will better provide teachers with regionally relevant lesson plans and support state standards and school district learning objectives. Four issues of Colorado Connections, our quarterly newsletter, have been distributed to an audience of 18,000 educators around the state during the grant term. One more edition of the newsletter is expected to reach teachers in June of 2008. Task V. Program Administration: An advisory committee has been convened to support Colorado Project WET. The committee members are representative of the geographic and topical diversity of water and education in Colorado. The advisory committee has assisted the Project WET Coordinator with revising short and long term goals for the program, developing new partnership strategies, and ensuring fiscal responsibility for the program. Project Successes New relationships with universities and institutions of higher learning have been initiated to support pre-service teachers. New partners include Fort Lewis College in Durango and Mesa State College in Gunnison. Faculty members in the education departments of these colleges have been formally trained as Project WET facilitators and will offer workshops using Project WET curriculum materials will be offered to all pre-service teachers enrolled in the education program. 303-291-7437 1 303-291-7456(fax) 1 cwn(a~,coloradowatershed.or~ 1 www.coloradowatershed.or~ Colorado Watershed Network 1 P.O. Box 21935 1 Denver, CO 80221