Youth In Nature Network

Our new crew!🤩This year YINN is teaming up w the fabulous Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful to empower a new group of teen leaders! We took advantage of a Digital Learning Day to kick off things w a roadside clean up, then over lunch brainstormed activities for the 2026-2027 program year. In addition to helping GC&B events like “One for the Chipper” and “Hazardous Waste Collection Day”, these 💚students representing 10 Gwinnett high schools will strengthen project management skills, learn about careers in conservation, and enjoy kayaking, camping and more - most for the first time! 💚🥳

Hard to believe our youth who produced this video are now entering their 3rd year of college…excited to meet the new crop of high school teens starting in our leadership program this fall! 🫨💚

Y4EA Crayfish Creek Site Visit 2024 Students from public high schools across Gwinnett County (Georgia) enjoyed a unique summer work study program called "Youth for Environmental Action" (Y4EA)....

Unfortunately our River clean up got rained out today, BUT it gives us time to share memories of a sunnier day 4 years ago! 😎 Most of these smiling faces have stayed in touch with us while going on to new adventures…what we love most about our programs is they allow time to build meaningful relationships w young people (instead of one-time activities). It’s an honor and a joy to be part of their 💚journey, even if just for a little while…💙🤩 Interested in learning more about our opportunities? Check us out at www.YouthInNature.net

Youth In Nature Network Youth In Nature Network (YINN) is a nonprofit that gets young people outside and immersed in the natural world. We offer outdoor experiences, educator support, active stewardship opportunities, and uniquely awesome international eco-trips!

YINN’s first “Teachers In The Wild” adventure was a wild success! ✅🐸🥳 This is professional development for educators as we help them connect an amazing and unique educational journey to their teaching goals back in the classroom. In addition to being immersed in the astonishing biodiversity of Costa Rica, we traveled with local guides and scientists to a very remote community where we planted native trees around a school yard. It felt really good to be part of a joyful community effort to forward the ancient ways of caring for the rainforest to young kids. 💚

Interested in learning more about this study abroad for adults? Let us know in the comments below and we’ll get in touch! ✅

THIS...this was the kind of adventure that bonds friendships, makes excellent memories, and refuels us YINN leaders! 💙Awesome super crazy fun running Class II rapids with "kids" for the first time ever....thanks to our guides Dustin Miller and Sami McKinney we made it safely, learned some cool paddling tricks, and had FUN!! 🤩YINN's goal is to help young people make positive emotional connections to nature...we all gave this adventure 100% top ratings ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Last day of Environmental Club for this school year…we wrapped it up by finishing our FROG habitat! 🥳 While we were working on it, a Phoebe did several fly-bys and told us to hurry….it may be more of a fancy bird bath until we add some aquatic plants and the frogs move in! 🐸✅

Part of what we do is empower students by helping fund their visions. It was really cool to be recognized at Brookwood's FFA (Future Farmers of America) event tonight - even cooler to see the projects we helped fund come to life! It really is a joy to support these teachers and their amazing students. YAY!! 🤩💚✅