{"id":65407,"date":"2016-01-20T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=65407"},"modified":"2016-01-19T19:46:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T00:46:38","slug":"friends-of-rogers-anticipates-another-milestone-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=65407","title":{"rendered":"Friends of Rogers Anticipates Another Milestone Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Friends of Rogers Environmental Educator Sarah Freedman works with a young visitor; guests can anticipate new program offerings in the coming year. (Photo courtesy Friends of Rogers)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(Sherburne, NY \u2013 Jan. 2016) Friends of Rogers, the non-profit organization operating the Rogers Environmental Education Center in Sherburne is celebrating an outstanding season while anticipating another milestone year.<\/p>\n

For 2015, reported attendance in the Visitor Center reached nearly 11,500, an increase of 12 percent over the previous year. When added to the estimated number of casual on-property visitors, Rogers Center hosted nearly 20,000 guests last year.<\/p>\n

Growth at Rogers Center occurred in other areas as well. A \u201cNative Pollinator\u201d garden \u2013 featuring exclusively local plants \u2013 was created to make Rogers Center more friendly to local pollinators. Environmental Educator Sarah Freedman is preparing this garden to become a real-life learning laboratory for future programs.<\/p>\n

\u201cNature\u2019s Nursery,\u201d a unique, nature-led early childhood education program, began this fall. Children\u2019s Coordinator Jenni Larchar leads pre-schoolers through a variety of specialized activities, allowing them to learn and grow surrounded by the outdoors.<\/p>\n

Youth \u201cSummer Adventures Camps\u201d grew from five weeks in the summer of 2014 to eight weeks in 2015, joined by the newly-created \u201cJunior Adventures\u201d for campers ages five and six.<\/p>\n

A host of initiatives are currently in development for 2016. This includes creation of the \u201cLocal Environmental Education Project,\u201d an innovative approach which will transform traditional field trip experiences at Rogers Center into outdoor classroom opportunities. Exhibit renovation is underway, with the aim of enhancing educational components and an emphasis on interactive elements for higher-quality learning experiences. The strategic expansion of experiential learning programs will bring even more visitors to Rogers Center for hands-on learning and exploration of the natural environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the willpower and commitment to the pursuit of our goal that continues to enable Friends of Rogers to succeed,\u201d said Simon Solomon, Friends of Rogers executive director. \u201cWe are certainly inspired and motivated by last year\u2019s successes, and we look forward to an exciting year in 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rogers Center is operated by Friends of Rogers Environmental Education Center, Inc., a nonprofit organization that offers educational programs for people of all ages. Seasonal hours are from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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(Sherburne, NY \u2013 Jan. 2016) Friends of Rogers, the non-profit organization operating the Rogers Environmental Education Center in Sherburne is celebrating an outstanding season while anticipating another milestone year. For 2015, reported attendance in the Visitor Center reached nearly 11,500, an increase of 12 percent over the previous year. When added to the estimated number […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agfarming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}