POTOMAC, Md. – In support of President Obama's Every Kid in a Park initiative , on Thursday, June 4, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join renowned rock climber Tommy Caldwell and rising fourth-grade students for a morning of outdoor activities in the Carderock section of C&O Canal National Historical Park.
Jewell and Caldwell will accompany a group of students from Elsie Whitlow Stokes Charter School in Washington, D.C., for rock climbing and a short hike along the area's Billy Goat Trail. During the coming school year, fourth-graders from Stokes and other schools across the country will gain free access with their families to national parks and all public lands and waters for the first time, as part of the President's Every Kid in a Park initiative.
Caldwell is an American rock climber who recently completed the first-ever free climb of El Capitan's Dawn Wall in Yosemite National Park.
Earlier this year, President Obama launched the Every Kid in a Park initiative in conjunction with the National Park Service Centennial in 2016 to help connect young people with America's great outdoors. The initiative is part of the President's $45 million FY 2016 budget request for youth engagement programs administered by the Department of the Interior.
Who
Sally Jewell, U.S. Secretary of the Interior
Tommy Caldwell, Rock climber
What
Every Kid in a Park event with renowned rock climber Tommy Caldwell
When
Thursday, June 4, 2015
9:15 a.m. EDT – Media check-in
9:30 a.m. EDT – Event begins
Where
Carderock Recreation Area
C&O Canal National Historical Park
Potomac, MD 20854
For directions, please visit this website.
Media
Credentialed members of the media are encouraged to RSVP here.
Source: Department of Interior
