Applications for the 2010 Elsie & Harry S. Knighton Scholarship are currently available at the Scioto Foundation office, 303 Chillicothe Street in Portsmouth. The Knighton Scholarship Fund provides a full scholarship for a sixth grade student or students from Scioto County to attend a four-day natural science camp at the edge of Appalachia Preserve in Adams County.
The deadline for applications to be received at the Scioto Foundation office is Friday, February 26, 2010, according to the Shawnee Nature Club which established the scholarship in 1999 in memory of their club’s founder, Harry S. Knighton.

For more than 40 years, the Nature Conservancy and the Cincinnati Museum Center have been preserving the
extraordinary area in Ohio through stewardship, scientific
inquiry and education.

“It is an educational partnership that, over time and with consistent quality, actually advances science,” explains Lucy Miller of the Ohio Chapter of the Nature Conservancy. “Classes explore the preserve and participate in an interactive approach to the scientific method, discuss current issues in conservation and more. Teens and preteens will spend three days exploring rugged unglaciated landscapes while studying a myriad of threatened and endangered plant and animal species.”

“Activities tend to flow with current scientific interests on the preserve,” notes Miller. “In this way kids can really get an idea of what scientists do in the field.”

To learn more about the preserve, visit the website of the Cincinnati Museum detailing the living collection at www.cincymuseum.org/cmc/collection/living_collection.html.
For more information about the application process, call the Scioto Foundation at (740) 354-4612, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For details about the camp, contact the Edge of Appalachia Preserve (937) 544-2880 or by email at enviroed@bright.net.

Harry S. Knighton Scholarship
Deadline is February 26, 2010