LEWIS AND CLARK EXPLORATORY CENTER OF VIRGINIA INC
P O BOX 281, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA 22902

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Organizations Filed Purposes: TO ESTABLISH A UNIQUE LEWIS & CLARK EXPLORATORY CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES, OPEN TO AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, WITH FOCUS ON THE CONCEPTION, ORGIN AND LEGACY OF THE LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION.

LEWIS & CLARK EXPLORATORY CENTER 2018 PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTSIn 2018 the Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center served the public five days a week, receiving school groups, camping goups, families, tourists, and non-profit organizations and business groups. We worked regularly with Madison House, the University of Virginia's non-profit student resource agency, and with APO. the co-ed service fraternity from UVA. With their help we renovated our outdoor boat exhibis and we expanded our storge space.Our core program of exhibits, history tours, river hikes and activities, and indoor art,science and history projects continued and expanded. We taught the skills of exploration, including journaling, carpentry, science, mapmaking, and orienteering. We also developed new programs, exhibits, and challenges for our school toors and our camp groups, and we participated in elementary school science fairs and held special events for children and families such as boatbuilding, Presidents' day, historical activities, photography and wideo workshops for adults and children, history tours led by docents, and natural history based on the Lewis & Clark Expedition. We printed new tourism brochures and had them distriuted throughout the local hotels; we did school mailings; we expanded the items in our exhibitions through donations and purchases.Through out the year we ran a special art program for hildren, "Art and Nature," which taught children art history related to Lewis and Clark and Western and natural history exploration, while also providing them the opportunity to learn and do related artworks. In April and May we participated in Charlottesville Earth Week. June through August we offered a variety of summer camp programs including kayaking, nature walks and environmental science and history. We also ran camps for English as a Second Language for middle schoolers and high school students, teaching them environmental science and its vocabulary as we also taught them kayaking and introduced them to our locl history and to the national history of Lewis and Clark and Jefferson. We discussed Native Anerican history and African Anerican history along the Rivanna River as a large component of our tours. We continued a three-part program for high school students on race, the environment and medical themes of the Expenition, funded by the Bama Works Foundationb of the Charlottesville Albemarle Community Foundation.We also increased our programing for children with disabilities, both brain injuries and physical impairments, working with the Albemarle County therapeutic camps. we provided one-on-one instruction in kayaking, aided by a specialist in adaptive sports. We arranged for lifeguard certification of our staff.We became an active partner in the community wide celebration of art and the river called FLOW and ran a wooden boat building program for children as part of the participation.We attended the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, which we will be hosting in 2020 in Charlottesville. We worked with the Virginia Lewis & Clark Trail Initiative, which has been endorsed by the Virginia General Assembly. We partnered with Monticello for the Seed Exchange project, where we grew an educational garden with historical seeds of the Three Affiliated Tribes who sheltered Lewis & Clark in North Dakota. We used this garden for both children's and adult education, with accopmpanying exhibitions and displays. We participated in Monticello's Harvest Festival with an exhibit from this program.Throughout the year we offered lectures as an adult education partnrhip with the Home Front Chapter of the Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation. We also offered Grandparent's Days, with multi-generational hikes and crafts. We rented our building at low cost for non-profits with similar missions to our own. We continued our annual fundraising dinner based on historical foods called "A Portable Feast," which helped us make a match towards site improvements.We closed the year with hands-on activities for families during our open public hours, focusing on historical crafts for holiday gift-giving.

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