BITS Team Gets an A!

We want to thank our hard-working Birds in the Schools (BITS) (formerly Audubon in the Schools) team for providing impactful in-classroom and outdoor educational programs through this past school year.

From January through June 2025 this group engaged with 975 students, visited 8 schools, and gave 28 presentations during 40 classroom hours! They provided both the classroom drawing program, Feathers, and our outdoor program, Beginning Birding. The drawing program incorporated our bird specimens and feathers, using them as inspiration for student drawings. The Beginning Birding classes used our sets of binoculars and strategically placed bird cut-outs to help students learn the binocular skills needed for finding and identifying birds.

Great job to our group of BITS instructors: Barb Pope, Rose Britton, Amy Dessert, Cecelia Hagen, Claire Rozman, and Serena Quintana.

We hope to inspire future generations of budding ornithologists. As we prepare for the start of school again in the fall, we welcome new volunteers to contribute to our classroom presentations, and are also looking for additional classrooms that would be interested in learning more about birds.

FMI: Interested individuals should contact Barb Pope at aitsbirds@gmail.com.