Sound to Sea Environmental Education Program

Sound to Sea is an environmental education program located on a North Carolina barrier island. We offer school groups overnight field trips. Students attend habitat-based classes containing multi-disciplinary, hands-on activities.

Baba Dioum, an African Naturalist, explains most elegantly "In the end, we will only conserve what we love. We will only love what we understand. We will only understand what we are taught." We want the Sound to Sea Program to be the first step in this chain.

Our goal is to help students understand why and how we are tied to the earth. Through a lens of biology, current events, or cultural (social studies), students will have the opportunity to learn about the unique adaptations of the plants and animals that live on a barrier island, how man has used these plants and animals throughout history, or how the loss of this amazing biodiversity is harmful to human health.

Sound to Sea is a non-profit educational service for public and private school youth, their teachers and other supervising adults. Sound to Sea was established in 1993 as an earth stewardship outreach ministry of the Trinity Camp and Conference Center, which is owned and operated by the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina. We have been running continually since then. We work hard to build good relationships with the teachers and schools that come to our program.