Funding offset costs of Yampa Valley Science School. The Yampa Valley Science School provides an opportunity for all sixth-grade students in Routt County to spend an entire week exploring the ecology of their home and collecting research to determine how we can better protect it. A teacher from Soroco described the experience and benefits from a teacher’s perspective, “The science school experience fosters an interest and love of science. For some students, it is their first opportunity to do some real, hands-on, minds-on science. It takes science from 
the theoretical to the practical, relevant topic I feel it is meant to be. It gives us, as classroom teachers some really valuable schema and knowledge on which to build for the year.”