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The Wild Center is a science center and natural history museum located in Northern New York State’s Adirondack Park. The Wild Center hosted the first Adirondack Youth Climate Summit in 2009. Since then, that summit has evolved into the Youth Climate Program: a youth-empowered network that hosts an annual multi-day youth leadership retreat in the Adirondacks, provides professional development for educators, offers a year-long paid fellowship program for local high school students, and supports a global network of over 250 youth climate summits in addition to an annual summit at The Wild Center itself. The Youth Climate Program also encourages and empowers local, youth-driven climate action through helping high school students develop “Climate Action Plans,” which have a positive, measurable impact on the students’ schools and communities. Through the Youth Climate Program, The Wild Center has successfully created unique, youth-led opportunities for cross-generational engagement in the climate movement. The Wild Center’s Youth Climate Program can be a model for how other informal education institutions such as museums, nature centers, and afterschool programs that engage teens can provide critical leadership development and climate change education, especially in rural areas.

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“We Are the Creative Generation”: The Wild Center’s Climate Program as a Model for Supporting Youth-Led Climate Action

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    2026年

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  • Anthony Zurlo,
  • Phoebe Glennon,
  • Zarela Gulli,
  • Alicia Lamb,
  • Cedar Barg,
  • Garrett Marino,
  • Elle Eberhardt

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The Wild Center is a science center and natural history museum located in Northern New York State’s Adirondack Park. The Wild Center hosted the first Adirondack Youth Climate Summit in 2009. Since then, that summit has evolved into the Youth Climate Program: a youth-empowered network that hosts an annual multi-day youth leadership retreat in the Adirondacks, provides professional development for educators, offers a year-long paid fellowship program for local high school students, and supports a global network of over 250 youth climate summits in addition to an annual summit at The Wild Center itself. The Youth Climate Program also encourages and empowers local, youth-driven climate action through helping high school students develop “Climate Action Plans,” which have a positive, measurable impact on the students’ schools and communities. Through the Youth Climate Program, The Wild Center has successfully created unique, youth-led opportunities for cross-generational engagement in the climate movement. The Wild Center’s Youth Climate Program can be a model for how other informal education institutions such as museums, nature centers, and afterschool programs that engage teens can provide critical leadership development and climate change education, especially in rural areas.