Schools that elect to enroll in the Team WET Schools program make a commitment to advance water education and responsible water stewardship among their students and faculty. The Team WET Schools initiative encourages use of WET in the City curriculum materials throughout the school year in preparation of a chosen water stewardship project. A sustainable network of community and corporate partners grows around each Team WET School supporting students in active water stewardship and community improvement.

CEE, in partnership with the City of Houston and Harris County Stormwater Management Joint Task Force, launched the Team WET Schools program in the spring of 2002 at James S. Hogg Middle School in Houston, Texas. Mr. Leonel Castillo, Education Liaison for the Houston Mayor's Office spoke at a special ceremony and officially designated Hogg as the first Team WET School in Houston and in the nation. Since that time Hogg has been, and continues to be, an exemplary model school for the Team WET Schools program, exceeding our initial expectations in many ways. At Hogg alone twenty-three teachers from across the disciplines have participated in WET in the City training workshops and are actively using activities from the WET in the City Curriculum and Activity Guide in their classrooms. WET in the City activities have been vertically aligned with the school's science and environmental science curricula, ensuring that ALL of Hogg's 900+ students experience hands-on, minds-on activities from the guide.

Hogg Middle School students, with the help of their teacher mentors hosted a school-wide, interdisciplinary water conservation festival in April of 2003. Hogg students used what they learned about water and water-related issues to adapt WET in the City activities into over 30 interactive, hands-on educational booths. The student led booths engaged and informed over 650 parents, students, younger children from feeder elementary schools, and members of the community. The festival was such a success that the school is gearing up for another water festival this spring. Enthusiasm and involvement continue to grow with plans to conduct a school water audit.