Past Programs
The Morongo Basin has grown significantly in the nine years since our program was founded, and so have we. Just as our desert plant and animal life can thrive within our harsh environment, our program’s resilience depends on adaptation, interdependence and community care.
Take a moment to scroll through some of our favorite moments from past workshops, classes and public programming that we’ve loved shring with you.
3rd Annual Student Silent Film Festival, held at Smith's Ranch Drive In Theater, 2023.
Still from S. Billig's film, "Pirate of the West." 3rd Annual Student Silent Film Festival, held at Smith's Ranch Drive In Theater, 2023.
Audience at the 3rd Annual Student Silent Film Festival, held at Smith's Ranch Drive In Theater, 2023.
Red-tailed hawk Natural Science Illustration, from student self-published field guide "Strange, Furry & Spiky", 2019.
Critique of scientific illustrations, during creation of student-published field guide, "Strange, Furry & Spiky", 2019.
Students working in small groups on Fibers & Nature Dye Science projects. Materials tested include native desert flora rabbit brush, acacia bark and non-native rosemary bushes, 2023.
Student notes from Fibers & Nature Dye Science projects. Materials tested include native desert flora rabbit brush, acacia bark and non-native rosemary bushes. 2023.
Students showing off found-object natural dye projects, using rusted desert items and vinegar, 2023.
Student work from "Tiny House Challenge" architecture project. 5th-8th graders flexed their math & design to create to-scale models of tiny homes within a preset fictional budget, and researched supply costs, and abided by building regulations, 2019.
Student in 5th grade working on their Tiny House Challenge model.
Amish-inspired "Hexsign" paintings from a 3rd & 4th grade Math Murals project.
Curtain call for 3rd & 4th grade marionette puppeteers, 2018.
Creative Writing story mountains from 3rd & 4th grade students working in groups to write short plays for a marionette performance, 2018.
Programs for 3rd & 4th grade Marionettes performance, 2018.
1st & 2nd Grade students selecting vocabulary cards for "Self Portraits From the Inside Out," 2017.
2nd grade student comic book excerpt, from a reflection project relating on the graphic novel "El Deafo" by Cece Bell, 2018.
Puppet theater and audience spaces for 3rd & 4th grade Marionette performance, 2018.
