Texas State Youth Water Camp

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Texas State Youth Water Camp

• a 5-day educational experience for high school
  youth
• made possible by County Extension Agents,
• NRCS personnel, Texas Cooperative Extension
  Specialists and other water resources experts
• Bentley 4-H Center in Ward County

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Bentley 4-H Center
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2007 Camp Experience

• guest speakers
• project work
• tours to highlight use, reuse, and conservation
  of water
• agricultural
• industrial
• recreational
• municipal

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Guest Speakers
Michael Mecke, Extension Program
Specialist--Water Management Purchasing
Marketing Water Cameron Turner--Texas Water
Development Board State of Texas Water Dennis
Clark-Emerald Underground Water Conservation
District Developing Groundwater Conservation
Districts Rick FowlerCrane County
Rancher WindmillsHistory and Operation
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Project Work
Drip Irrigation Matt Tindall, Field Engineer Lone
Star Groundwater Conservation District Lawn
2-3 Dana Sparks, CEA - 4-H Specialist Texas
Cooperative Extension Pecos County Rangeland
Watershed Management Wade Kirkwood, CEA -AG /
Natural Resources Texas Cooperative Extension
Crane County Water Economics Natalie
Wolff Natural Resource Conservation Service
Throckmorton Riparian Area Management Logan
Boswell, CEA-Ag/NR Texas Cooperative Extension
Brewster/Jeff Davis Counties
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Tours
Permian Sea Shrimp Farm -- Imperial, Texas Bart
Patsy Reid Field Crops Tour Dennis Braden,
Pecos County Producer/Pecos County Field Crops
Committee Isaac Martinez-Civil Engineer
Technician -- Natural Resources Conservation
Service Mandujano Brothers Onion Farms Packing
Shed Alvaro Mandujano, Producer and Manager of
Trucking Coyanosa, Texas Belding Pecan
Farm Glen Honaker, Manager -- Belding
Farms Balmorhea State Park Wetlands Exploration
Area and Pool Flat Top Dairy Jeff Norwood,
Manager (Carousel-type Dairy)
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Tours
Windmill Tour Nancy Christopher, Monahans --
Windmill Enthusiast TXU Permian Basin Plant --
Monahans Tim Warren, Plant Manager Odessa Water
Treatment Lab and Plant Debbie McReynolds,
Environmental Control - City of Odessa Mulch
Garden at the Time Machine -- Odessa Debbie
Benge-Frost CEA-Horticulture Texas Cooperative
Extension Ector/Midland Counties Sherwood
Aquatic Center -- Odessa
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Permian Sea Shrimp Farm -- Imperial
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Field Crops TourBraden FarmsCoyanosa
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Mandujano Brothers Onion Farms Packing
Shed
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Belding Farms Pecan Farm west of Fort
Stockton
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Balmorhea State ParkWetlands Exploration
Area and Pool
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Flat Top Dairysouth of Pecos
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Windmill Tour -- Monahans
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TXU Permian Basin Plant -- Monahans
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Odessa Water Treatment Lab and Plant
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Mulch Garden at the Time Machine -- Odessa

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Skills Development
Listening Note-taking Writing Communication Teami
ng Leadership Organization Public
Speaking Communication TechnologyPower
Point Etiquette and Social Interaction
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Skills Development
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Skills Development
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Skills Development
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Skills Development
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Learning Objectives -- Blooms Taxonomy
Comprehension -- classify, explain, summarize,
convert, predict, distinguish between Application
-- demonstrate, compute, solve, modify, arrange,
operate, relate, adapt, apply, implement Analysis
-- differentiate, diagram, estimate, separate,
infer, order, subdivide Synthesis -- justify,
conclude, discriminate, support Evaluation --
judge, critique, compare
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Participant Presentations and Remarks
Lauren Davis Plains HS Senior Rangeland
Watershed Management Amanda Ford Denver City
HS Senior Drip Irrigation