Date Added: 14-09-2005

An Olympic-size swimming pool, rope bridges, a high-tech theater and air-conditioned cabins . . . all part of the Environmental Education Center near North East, Md.  Read the excerpt below about this fabulous facility for kids.

The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA
BY EDWARD L. KENNEY
09/13/2005

Principal Diana Rudolph stood on the deck of the Environmental Education Center near North East, Md., on Monday and gazed at the panorama of the Chesapeake Bay far below. Above her, a 550-foot-long cable ran from a tower at the rear of the building, where her students would be able to hook up to a zip line and swoop at 35 mph to a splashdown in the bay.

"I went to a camp in the sixth grade and it was never like this," said Rudolph, whose Perryville, Md., Middle School sixth-graders were the first group of public-school children to experience NorthBay, a new environmental learning center and youth camp in Elk Neck State Park. "It's phenomenal. This is more like a resort."

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