Stroud Water Research Center — Education Programs

Leading freshwater research and education institution providing field-based student programs, teacher workshops, and the WikiWatershed tool suite.

Stroud Water Research Center is a nonprofit research institution based in Avondale, PA (Chester County), with a national reputation for freshwater science. Its education program delivers school and community programs, teacher workshops on stream monitoring and watershed modeling, and the freely available WikiWatershed online tool suite. The Model My Watershed app is widely used in education and planning. Stroud also runs the Leaf Pack Experiment, a hands-on macroinvertebrate ecology curriculum used across the country. Teacher workshops typically run during summers and offer ACT 48 credits for Pennsylvania educators. Watershed groups can partner with Stroud on monitoring protocols, citizen science, or educational co-programming.