SCA Hosts Let’s Move Outside! Service Event at Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Garden

  • 12 years ago
(3BL Media) Washington, DC - June 28, 2012 - With a focus on healthy kids and a healthy environment, the Student Conservation Association (SCA) today conducted a Let’s Move Outside! service project for more than 100 active youth at Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Garden in Washington, D.C. The event also commemorated SCA’s 55th anniversary.

SCA members from Baltimore, Philadelphia, and the District of Columbia joined interns from the Department of the Interior’s Youth Office, Aramark's sustainability interns and members of Outdoor Nation, the outdoor movement to repair a Kenilworth hiking trail and make other park improvements.

“These young people are investing their time and hard work into making the park better for every visitor,” said National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis. “We love their commitment to service, to the national parks, and to getting outside and being active this summer as part of the First Lady’s Let’s Move Outside! program. Young p