Mary Patience (Pat) Penchalk

Pat Penchalk has been teaching 5th graders for 15 years at Leggett Community Learning Center in Akron, Ohio. With her many years of teaching experience and personal interest in science and the environment, she is giving inner-city children a rare opportunity to learn about nature and explore an outdoor world unknown to them. Pat has been enhancing the environmental education of her students by participating in various residential programs at the Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center. In addition, she has assisted the CVEEC in creating the specialized curriculum for two distinctively different programs as well as providing hands on teaching and assistance with the children.
 

This award is in recognition of your many years of giving inner-city children an opportunity to learn about nature and explore an outdoor world unknown to them. Through your participation in various residential programs at the Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center, you have provided outstanding contributions to early childhood environmental education.