Delta Environmental  

Award-Winning 

STEM/STEAM Programs!

Delta Environmental provides award-winning STEM programs to more than 3,000 students per year in the Greater Rochester region. We teach students about our environment, how to protect our water resources - and we all have lots of fun doing it! 
 
In 2019, the Finger Lakes STEM Hub recognized our Summer STEAM Program at Rochester Childfirst Network for its "exemplary work," referring to it as a a "model and inspiration" for others to incorporate STEM into their own programming. 

Our program director is an international expert!  She develops and implements our program to align with the Adopt-A-Stream curriculum and tailors it to meet the needs of every class.

Through Delta Environmental, students conduct scientific experiments in the classroom and on field trips. They learn how to analyze the condition and health of our local water resources and gather significant data for the Finger Lakes Institute. This information is then made available for others' research and programs. 

We all need clean water; so let's make sure we're doing our part to protect it!

If you'd like to sponsor a school program or volunteer, let us know! Send us an email at info@adopt-a-stream.org.

Find out more information and download the curriculum here

I saw the importance of aquatic ecology when I learned to fly fish as a young girl. My first experience with leading environmental education was as a counselor at Girl Scout Camp Pinewood in Arkport, NY. I led girls on backpacking and canoeing trips as I demystified the great outdoors.  I attended School of the Arts in the RCSD, which is the reason for my passion of connecting urban students to their environment. Too often, city residents see environmental issues as things that happen far away from the city and their lives.

I continued my focus on tangible ways of interacting and learning from my environment by majoring in Art History at the University of Rochester. I chose that major because more faculty in the Art History department worked in archaeology compared to faculty in other departments. I became a cultural resource management archaeologist in Western New York with Powers and Teremy, LLC, where my team surveyed local sites to preserve their historical heritage while allowing for new development.  

After digging for a couple of years, I reconnected with my interest in science education at SUNY Brockport. After I received my teaching degree in Earth Science and Special Education, I started volunteering for Delta Environmental. I became program director once I completed my master’s degree at Mississippi State in the Teaching in the Geosciences program. I like to combine my interest in science with my passion for hands-on learning.

I am also the lead tacher for Chariot Learning where I teach math, verbal, and general academic skills for the ACT and SAT tests and develop Chariot Learning’s research-based curriculum. In addition to this, I also moderate games for MasterMinds (academic, team quiz-bowl competitions) and play in local trivia events.

Kaeti Stoss