Stone and Holt Weeks Nature Field Trip Scholarship
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A scholarship fund has been established that will enable young children to explore, discover and celebrate nature through field trips to the Audubon Naturalist Society’s Woodend Sanctuary. The Stone and Holt Weeks Nature Field Trip Scholarship honors two young men, Stone and Holt Weeks, who were tragically killed in a highway trucking crash in 2009. Stone and Holt were committed to protecting the environment, and The Stone and Holt Weeks Foundation, created in memory of Stone and Holt, hopes to carry this on to honor their lives and spirits. This Scholarship is what we want — and more importantly, it is what our dearly beloved and amazing Stone and Holt would want. Their beautiful legacies are creating this generosity. They cared deeply about so many things, this earth and its environment, and others in need. |
 Stone, 7, and Holt, 3, celebrate Thanksgiving by taking a family walk at Woodend Sanctuary in 1992. |
The Stone and Holt Weeks Nature Field Trip Scholarship covers up to $1,000 of program fees and bus travel expenses to the Woodend Sanctuary.
Application requirements for the scholarship
- Your students must be in Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 5.
- Your school must be a public or charter school located in the District of Columbia.
- Your school must either be Title I or have at least 50% of the student population on the Free and Reduced-Price Meals Program.
To apply for the scholarship
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Choose a program from the ANS Environmental Science Programs Brochure.
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Fill out this application and send to Serenella Linares, School Programs Manager via email, [email protected] or fax to 301-951-7179; or mail:
Attn: Stone & Holt Weeks Scholarship
Application Deadlines
Fall 2014 Scholarship: Friday, September 26, 2014
Spring 2015 Scholarship: Friday, February 20, 2015
Past Recipients
Orr Elementary School – Spring 2014
Cleveland Elementary School – Spring 2013
Stone and Holt with their mother Jan Taylor Weeks in June 2009, rescuing a small creature in a sculpture garden from the granite in Houston’s summer heat. Stone, 24, and Holt, 20, were at Rice University and The James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. Stone was the researcher for Douglas Brinkley’s The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America. Holt was a rising junior at Rice and working on environmental and public policy issues. They were killed one month later.
To learn more about this local foundation, please visit The Stone and Holt Weeks Foundation.
Questions? Contact Serenella Linares, Schools Programs Manager, [email protected] or by phone 301-652-9188 x11.
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