Education Programs

VCHT Education programs touch every Vieques school child at least once a year.

Marine Life Exhibit
Barbara Bernache-Baker Bioluminescent Bay Room
MANTA (Movimiento en Apoyo a Nuestros Tesoros Ambientales—Movement in Support of our Environmental Treasures)
MANTA-Sábado: a new Saturday environmental education program for teenagers
Mantita (for ages 5-8)
MantaRaya (for ages 9-12)
MANTAstic Adventure (a program for visiting children)
Scholarship program for 15 Viequense students each year to attend higher education
Intern program for commercial students from Escuela Superior Germán Rieckehoff
Intern Program with Wellesley College
In school program and lectures on subjects such as bioluminescence, recycling, endemic species etc.
Recycling program and contest in the schools
Composting program in the schools
Science Fair
American Civics Program visits to Washington
Science on Wheels program
Earth Day
Global Warming Alert Day
Training for tour guides on bioluminescence and threats to the Bay
Playa Grande Tours
Lectures on Lion fish, petroglyphs, geology etc.
Replanting trees with the schools
Onsite tours and lectures for schools and colleges from Vieques and the main island of Puerto Rico
Onsite tours and lectures for college student groups from the US and other countries