Ari Guiragos Minassian Armenian School Visit to Karin jointly with School # 190

On 27th of June a group of 7 students from Ari Guiragos Minassian Armenian School of Santa Ana, Orange County visited Armenia Tree Project (ATP) Ohanian Environmental Education Center in Karin accompanied by their parents and Armenian language teacher, Ani Geloian. Here in Karin they met the students of the newly established eco-club of School #190 in Yerevan who were led by their Biology teacher Tatevik Melkumyan. Within the framework of ATP’s “Building Bridges” Project the students played “get-to-know-each-other” games, had a discussion on environment and trees and went on a wonderful tour in ATP Nursery. Together they planted seeds each of them with a large wish to grow their own tree in Armenia. At the end they all enjoyed the nice open-air lunch.

Minassian School group and the students from School # 190 in Yerevan

Ani Geloian - the head of the Minassian School Group

Children planting seeds together.

Nursery Program Manager Samvel Ghandilyan explaining the students how to plant seeds.

St. Stephen's School visit to Ohanian Environmental Education Center in Karin

On 27^th of May 12 students from St. Stephen’s Armenian School in Watertown, MA visited Armenia Tree Project (ATP) Ohanian Environmental Education Center in Karin accompanied by their teacher Ardemis Megerdchian as well as by 10 students from Anania Shirakatsi School in Yerevan along with their teacher Hasmik Petrosyan. Within the framework of ATP’s “Building Bridges” Project the children took part in several environmental activities that aimed to built closer connections between the US-Armenian children from St. Stephen’s School and the Armenian schoolchildren from Anania Shirakatsi School. The children altogether also planted seeds and toured the nursery led by ATP nursery specialists.

ATP activities depicted on the poster.

Drawing "Building Bridges" the way we see it.

The whole group together.

Taking a walk in ATP greenhouse in Karin Nursery.

Tigran Palazyan showing us around ATP Nursery in Karin.

Here we are planting seeds.

Together we are "building a bridge."