This certificate entitles the bearer to: $50 towards the tuition of any program through the ENC and an ENC T-Shirt

In 1972, soil excavated from the construction of an Olympic-size swimming pool at Newport Harbor High School was dumped near a gully that ran behind the adjacent Newport-Mesa Unified School District administrative offices, on land deemed otherwise useless. But that is not how a group of dedicated and determined science teachers and student volunteers saw it. They formed this soil into a landscape on which they created a living nature laboratory. From that beginning, students from throughout the community were invited to share its treasures, help maintain it, nurture it and learn from its resources