The Gateway Outdoor Learning Center is delighted to announce that Discovery Day 2024 will be held on Saturday, September 21, 2024 from 10am – 3pm.

As in previous years, Discovery Day will be held at our location adjacent to Conneaut Middle School on Gateway Avenue. Last year’s event was the largest turnout in our organization’s history with over 300+ families attending!  

About Discovery Day

For over 11 years, the Gateway Outdoor Learning Center has hosted its annual Discovery Day event. This event is free to the community and provides opportunities for children and their families to experience hands-on learning about the natural world that goes beyond the classroom. This event supports the mission of the Outdoor Learning Center to provide an educational space to inspire wonder, understanding and connection to the outdoors.

Discovery Day Attendees & Vendors

Attendees:

We look forward to welcoming you back to the Gateway Outdoor Learning Center for another fun filled, free family event!

This year’s event will feature a scavenger hunt, STEM activities, face painting, kids crafts, hands on learning events, animals, stagecoach rides, and more!

As always, a FREE lunch will be provided. We hope to see you there!

Vendors:

We cannot have a successful Discovery Day without you! It is our hope you will join us again this year to share your or your organization’s purpose, crafts and talents. To support participants, we have created a Facebook event to highlight the participants which can be shared throughout the community. We will also be happy to offer suggestions on booth themes and activities to support the Discovery Day programming.

If you wish to secure space at the event, please download the form below. As in the past, there will be no reservation fee.

You may respond through any of the options listed below:

Email:	golc2023@gmail.com
Facebook Message:	Gateway Outdoor Learning Center
Mail:	PO Box 732 Conneaut, OH 44030

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Our Mission:

The Gateway Outdoor Learning Center is a 501-3C non profit corporation whose mission is to provide a nature preserve that will inspire wonder, understanding and connection to the natural world through environmental learning.

Discovery Day Impact:

My first experience with the OLC was as a participant in Discovery Day. Students and other visitors stopped by my station to learn about bees; both honey bees and native bees. After talking a bit, many people visited the pollinator garden, now realizing that the bees were providing an important service and were not interested in stinging them on sight! Children especially seemed to feel more comfortable in the garden after learning more about bees. The Outdoor Learning Center has become a wonderful asset to the local and surrounding communities.

Rosemary Burns, Master Gardener

I have been associated with the OLC for many years. I have seen the organization grow and mature as an educational and experiential destination.

The partnership with the Conneaut School system is unique in Ashtabula County, and fills a void in most school curriculums when it comes to outdoor science training.

Their Discovery Day event provides children and school-aged students with a summer opportunity to get hands-on learning in science, botany, and other nature related disciplines.

Rees Davis, Master Gardener