N.E.S.T. News
Nurturing Young Minds – N.E.S.T. Achievements at Kitty Hawk Elementary School
N.E.S.T. Achievements at Kitty Hawk Elementary School 2017-2018 The big WIN of this program was the impact made on over 500 young minds...who are now educated, enthusiastic and compassionate about our beautiful sea turtles. It was a tremendously successful first year...
Nest #01 found in Duck!
NESTers have been waiting anxiously every morning for the early wake-up call about a nest but they weren't expecting to get a call in the afternoon! Yesterday a call came in on the hotline from Duck Ocean Rescue asking if we'd heard anything about a nest recently. It...
And the Winners Are……
Emmett Swain and Tallulah Morris submitted the winning name for the new loggerhead sea turtle recently added by N.E.S.T. to the ocean mural in the entrance hall of Kitty Hawk Elementary School..."SEAWEED"!! A school wide contest was run to name the new turtle. There...
Plastic straws
April 8, 2018 Over 500,000,000 plastic straws are used each day in the United States. It is estimated that more than 90 percent of trash floating in the oceans of the world is plastic. Plastic accounts as the most harmful man-made item to threatened and...
Thank you to NEST from Kitty Hawk Elementary School 4th graders!
Thanks to NEST the fourth graders at Kitty Hawk Elementary School visited the Sea Turtle Assistance and Rehabilitation (STAR) Center at the Aquarium on Roanoke Island. The trip added real life experiences to their sea turtle curriculum lessons. After visiting the...