TUCSON, Ariz. — The SCI Foundation is continuing its collaboration with Cabela’s, the World’s Foremost Outfitter, to provide youth ages five years and up and their families with hands-on experience in the outdoors and outdoor sportsmanship. This summer, seven Cabela’s stores across the U.S. will host the SCI Foundation’s Youth Education Seminars (YES) Outdoors, free to the public.
"Youth programs like YES Outdoors are necessary to passing on the sporting tradition to the next generation of outdoorsmen and women," said Dennis Highby, President and CEO of Cabela’s. “We’re proud to work with the SCI Foundation to help bring these entertaining and informative educational youth workshops to the communities surrounding Cabela’s retail stores.”
Store locations, as well as dates for the 2007 events, include: Dundee, Michigan (May 26), Fort Worth, Texas (June 16), La Vista, Nebraska (July 14), Rogers, Minnesota (August 25 & 26), Lehi, Utah (September 1), Hamburg, Pennsylvania (September 15 & 16), Kansas City, Kansas (September 22 & 23)
During each event children and young adults—many for the first time—will have the opportunity to engage in target shooting with air rifles. Other activities will include “shoot" and “don’t shoot” scenarios utilizing LaserShot technology along with hunter and firearm safety instruction.
Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops have been invited to lead outdoor living skills instruction. Boy Scouts will demonstrate "low impact camping" techniques along with other outdoor skills. Girl Scouts will conduct "nature ID" and similar exercises.
The American Red Cross will be present with Safety & First Aid information and their new "Be Red Cross Ready" Program.
The SCI Foundation’s popular Sensory Safari interactive education program also will be set up to help attendees learn about many different wildlife species, some for the first time, including wildlife history and management.
Safari In A Box, another SCI Foundation educational activity, will be presented during the YES Outdoors events, showing how to bring wildlife into a classroom setting. This handy 2x4-foot box, packed full of real or plastic replica skulls, pelts, rubber tracks and other taxonomic items from animals indigenous to North America, will provide attendees with experiences and knowledge they can share with their fellow students and teachers during the 2007-2008 school year.
As an added bonus, all attendees will have their names entered in to a drawing for a Crosman Youth Air Rifle Kit. YES Outdoors will provide one Air Rifle Kit to be given away at each event. The Kit contains: a Crosman Model 760 variable pump BB/ pellet repeater, 100 paper targets, 1250 wadcutter pellets and 3 pairs of shooting goggles.
Lee Paczosa, the Events Coordinator for the 2007 program, can be reached at SCI World Headquarters, Education Department, (520) 620-1220, ext. 387 or via email at mailto: yesoutdoors@safariclub.org.
For more information regarding YES Outdoors, call (toll free) 877-877-3265 or visit www.sci-foundation.org.
Media Contact:
Lee Paczosa,(520) 620-1220, ext. 387
