Scout & Youth Project Resources

Below you will find project ideas, resources and tips to help fulfill your senior, Eagle and other youth projects. If you would like to suggest resources, please let us know!
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Possible Projects

Below are suggested projects (projects are definitely not limited to these!). For more information please email volunteer@placernaturecenter.org (Don't forget to include your project ideas, your contact information like phone numbers, email and the best time to reach you)

Greenhouse Renovation
Our greenhouse needs a little love! The front work area needs to have the overhead 2x2s replaced and painted. The gate needs adjustment and the work area in general needs to be tightened up.

Storage Shed Spruce-up
Our old shed needs to be sanded down and repainted.

Picnic Tables
The picnic tables in our courtyard are ready to be sanded down and repainted.

Design & Build Passive Solar Window Coverings
These special window shade structures will allow the winter sun to warm the exhibit halls while keeping the hot summer sun out. These will help the nature center save of heating and cooling expenses and better protect our exhibits.

Design & Build Permanent Welcome Desk
Currently we have a make shift desk and side table for the front desk. It would be wonderful to have a nice built-in structure that has spaces for information and comfortably houses a computer. Design and building will be involved.

Develop and Build Accessibility in the Halls & Trails
Although Placer Nature Center does have a trail accessible by wheelchairs and a special garden for the blind, they need maintenance, care and improvement. New trails will need to lead to the Maidu Village as well as a new Maidu garden that will be installed in the 2009-2010 school year.

Design & Produce a Self-guided Tour Booklet or Signs for Exhibit Halls
Create guidebooks or signage for self-guided tours inside the exhibit halls.

Create & Produce Outdoor Signs
Many of the signs around Placer Nature Center (parking, trail marker, etc.) need to be updated. The nature center is also lacking signage that can warn families about rattle snakes and poison oak.

Develop & Produce a Volunteer Manual
Placer Nature Center needs a good volunteer manual to help with a new volunteer greeters program which will allow access to the exhibit halls at the center during more hours and on weekends.

Create & Produce Permanent Plaques & Signs for Halls
Create permanent plaques and signs for our Native American section of the Main Exhibit Hall.