Kalamazoo Gazette: Fourth grade conservationist to visit Disney World
A fourth grade student from The Montessori School in Kalamazoo, Matthew Nelson, is taking his commitment to conservation to Disney World. Matthew and the other young honorees will participate in the debut of the Friends for Change Youth Summit and see the world movie premiere of Disneynature’s “Chimpanzee” at the event. Matthew has been participating in the Kalamazoo Nature Center’s Outside in Our Schoolyard project, a spin-off of the Kalamazoo No Child Left Inside Community Initiative with the Children & Nature Network and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
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