SEQUIM – The first Sequim Middle School class to participate in Olympic Park Institute’s residential program came prepared for their first field research experience.
All 200 of Sequim’s sixth-graders participated in a three-day residential program last week in which they conducted research on the Olympic Park Institute campus at Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park.
Adrian Shulock, program director for OPI, said the students were among the best-prepared he has seen.
“Sequim really did a great job of aligning what they were doing in the classroom with what we do with field experiments,” he said.
Battelle, the international science and technology enterprise, with a specialized Marine Sciences Laboratory on Sequim Bay, donated a $15,000 grant to Sequim Middle School for the project.
The grant allowed the school to send all of its sixth-graders to two field study programs at OPI.
