“The Sustaining Power of Nature”
The 2023 OK EE Expo was held on Friday, February 3, 2023 at the Oklahoma City Zoo.
From oceans to the Amazon rainforest, our Keynote Speaker, Conservation Biologist Laurie Gillum, has dedicated most of her life to studying endangered species and their habitats, including cetaceans, chimpanzees, birds, and bugs. This passion for the natural world led her on a surprising journey to teaching kids about how their relationship to the plants and animals around them can make a positive difference in the world. We had a variety of hands-on and lecture style presentations on topics such as creating living labs, Climate, Water & Resilience, Forest Therapy, Eco Audits, Wind Energy, Recycling and Composting, Lichen, Youth Climate Challenge, Bees, Living Loose Parts, and Virtual Reality for Outdoor Education.

“Mind Blowing Wind Energy” – Break Out Boxes

“From Whence it Came: Recycling and Returning to Nature”

Climate, Water & Resilience with Project WET

Climate, Water & Resilience with Project WET

“From Whence it Came: Recycling and Returning to Nature”

“The Sustaining Power of Play: Living Loose Parts”

Heads down, Heads up: A Virtual (Reality) Program for Outdoor Education

Keynote Speaker – Laurie Gillum

“Reviving Natural Areas and Creating Living Labs, School by School”

From Monitoring Mosquitos to Measuring Rain: How we Empower Youth in the Climate Change Challenge

Attendees at the 2023 Oklahoma Environmental Education Expo

Learning to Like Lichen