CEE piloted the Team WET Schools program in 2002 at Hogg Middle School, an urban, sixth through eighth-grade campus located just northwest of downtown Houston, Texas. We wanted to "work" this exciting new program close to home to gain first-hand experience with the ins and outs of local water education efforts in urban areas. In 2003 the Team WET Schools program expanded to middle schools in San Antonio, Texas and Indianapolis, Indiana. Local partners embraced the Team WET Schools model with much enthusiasm and worked with us to localize the program to address water-related issues inherent and unique to their cities. In 2004 we welcomed our first elementary schools to the growing Team WET Schools family, and then in 2005 a school in Galveston, Texas joined the Team WET team. Most recently, a number of schools in cities across Texas have joined the program. We are working to ensure that the Team WET Schools family continues to grow...one school at a time, city by city, with new partners offering resources and support to further the water education and stewardship efforts of urban schools in their local communities.

Click on a city to discover what exciting water initiatives are happening at select schools in these cities.

Hogg Middle School in Houston Texas was the first Team WET School and a GREAT one at that! Here is what it meant for Hogg to be a Team WET School.

• 25 teachers trained in the WET in the City Curriculum and Activity Guides
• 13 teachers participated in "How to Host a School Water Festival" workshop
• Students engaged in WET in the City activities in their classrooms
• 150 Hogg students hosted a water festival, uniting over 600 community members in their water education

Take a peek at what else Hogg Middle School has been up to by clicking on the Houston link in the sidebar.