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    Welcome to WETFest!

    WetFest – Cape Cod’s Educational Water Festival Program

    Wetfest is an interactive method of teaching students the fundamentals of water and Cape Cod’s unconfined, sole source aquifer.  In small groups, students progress through a series of hands-on stations exploring and learning.  They take home a strong message and a true understanding about how water impacts their daily lives. Students leave the festival with new ideas to save and protect water through simple personal actions and pledge to be a groundwater guardian. Watch a video about WET Fest here.

    What’s new with WetFest?

    WETFest will be back in schools for the 2023-2024 school year! Additionally, we have created a completely virtual version of the WetFest activities, which will be ready for access soon! For this coming year (2023-24) we will also be reopening our “lending library” of the Beach Clean-Up game. If you wish to sign up for the Beach Clean-Up game or if you would like more information on WetFest Cape Cod, please contact the WetFest coordinator at the bottom of this webpage. 

    Beach Clean-Up Lending Library

    Cape Cod Cooperative Extension’s WETFestival is coasting back in to classrooms for the 2023-2024 school season through our Beach Clean-Up campaign! Since the pandemic, AmeriCorps members have been adapting WETFestival’s aquifer education lessons to take on an online, and hybrid format. AmeriCorps members Hazel and Emily created the lending library, and “take-action” campaign for our Beach Clean-Up activity. The Beach Clean-Up activity walks children and their families through the effects of pollution on coastal habitats, and shows that when we band together more beaches can be saved. Through the lending library program, teachers and educational community groups are able to borrow the activity, and partake in AmeriCorps’ “take action” campaign to then do your own beach clean-up. This campaign will be facilitated using the “Clean Swell” app, which helps volunteers categorize the trash they collect, and weighs approximately how much trash has been removed. A downloadable copy of the curriculum standards for this activity is available below. To sign up for this activity, contact the WET Fest Coordinator. If you have any further questions, please contact the WetFest Coordinator at the bottom of the page.

    The “Beach Clean-Up” activity lending library will reopen for October 2023! Enjoy your summer!

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    Year 25 WETFest Coordinator

    Year 25 WETFest Coordinator

    Thank you for joining us for the 2022-2023 school year! Our new WET Fest Coordinator is Sarah Lawson! If you have any questions about WETFest, our Beach Clean-Up lending library, or any other inquiries you can email sarah.lawson@capecod.gov  

    Happy learning!

    WETFest’s “Bubble Booth” can barely contain student’s excitement!
    Students take their chances while playing “Clams Casino”
    Students D.O. the Limbo while learning about dissolved oxygen
    Students learn about the different densities of water at “Where the River Meets the Sea”
    WETFest’s own Groundwater Wizard teaches students about protecting Cape Cod’s water!
    AmeriCorps members warn about the effects of overusing fertilizer in “The Good, The Bad, & The Algae”
    Students learn about the different parts of a Septic tank at “Flush the Kids”
    “Flush the Kids” demonstrates how to properly dispose of pollutants & maintain septic systems
    Students travel through the Water Cycle by making take home bracelets.

    WETFests are managed by Cape Cod Cooperative Extension and are facilitated by the generous efforts of AmeriCorps Cape Cod.