PROGRAMS AND FIELD TRIPS
Since our last meeting, our staff presented 47 classroom programs, and led 16 field trips. Volunteers gave one presentation. This includes one field trip to Parks, one trip to Williams and one visit to St. Mary's. This is a total 1,600 direct student contacts. Volunteers gave 26 hours of their time to the Resource Center this month.  For the 2000-2001 school year, Resource Center Staff presented 1040 classroom presentations and led 68 field trips. This is a total of 27,700 direct student contacts. Volunteers gave over 350 hours of their time to help with Resource Center projects this year. 

TEACHER WORKSHOPS
There were no teacher workshops this month. For the 2000-2001 school year the Resource center organized five workshops for teachers, and 83 teachers participated in these workshops

SPECIAL EVENTS
Glo, Sharon, and Alex did activities with kids at Kids Day at Thorpe Park on May 12. We did flower activities with about 100 kids. For the 2000-2001 school year, the Resource Center did kids activities at 11 community events. Over 1,00 additional children and families were reached through special events.

FINANCIAL
We submitted proposals to the Urban and Community Forestry Program through the State Land Department this month for funding the new education center. We received a challenge grant from an individual this month for $6000 for our new building. We need to receive $6,000 in additional donations by the end of July to receive this funding. Marie Jackson donated a very nice computer to us that we will be able to use for our web site development. We are still looking for a monitor for this computer. We received $5,500 for our general operating costs from the City of Flagstaff Arts and Science Commission for next year.

BUILDING UPDATE
We are waiting for the engineering for the trusses. We are still focusing on fundraising and getting  the plans submitted to the city. Our start date for construction has been pushed back to August 6th.

MISCELLANEOUS
Mary is working with Marshall School to develop their new science curriculum and science lab. We are continuing to work the development of our web site.