Welcome and orientation. Ice-breakers, introduction of staff and presentation of the week's activities.

Arrive To: Check-in and program registration is from 3-5pm.

Dinner: Enjoy dinner prepared especially to satisfy young and mature pallets. Afterward, we will familiarize the group with the facilities, introduce the naturalists who are hosting you for the week, and enjoy fun ice-breakers as you get to know your fellow Road Scholars.

Lodging: Hampton Inn & Suites Warren

Meals Included: Dinner

Welcome to the Audubon Center and Sanctuary, and an introduction to the week's explorations.

Breakfast: Continental breakfast with cereal, hot dishes and more provided by the Hampton Inn.

Morning: Discover the exhibits and trails of the Audubon Center and Sanctuary of Jamestown, which will be our headquarters as we learn about insects, birds, salamanders, and more. Get a chance to look at some of the books, nets and other tools we will be using through the week.

Lunch: Lunch and relaxation. Lunch with selections specially prepared to offer a fun and healthy meal for everybody. Enjoy it outside or on the third floor "Sky Room" of the Nature Center, with a view that often will include ospreys and eagles hunting over Big Pond.

Afternoon: Introduction to Field Ecology. Discover some of the most common insects and spiders to be found in local fields through a quick introduction. We will then teach the basics of using an insect net before heading out to catch, identify and release some of the local insects. We'll be using insect field guides, nets, and magnifiers in our quest to identify the local insects, while our naturalists add interesting facts and stories about what is found.

Afternoon: We'll return to the hotel and dive into journalling with the grandchildren. Journals are a map of our experiences for the week. We'll learn how to incorporate our scientific finds of the day with the experiences and memories of working with grandparents. As we finish journals, there will be free time to enjoy the pool, lawn games or just relax.

Dinner: Dinner will be at a nearby local restaurant, followed by movie night at the hotel. We will provide a short movie that has to do with the day and popcorn.

Lodging: Hampton Inn & Suites Warren

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: Breakfast Buffet at the Hampton Inn.

Morning: Join a professional researcher as he hangs mist nets to catch small birds and outfits them with metal tags for future identification. You may even get a chance to hold a bird.

Lunch: We'll take a brown bag lunch and get an early start to Kinzua Dam and Jake's Rocks.

Afternoon: Jake's Rocks is an amazing rock formation in the Allegheny National Forest that is home to one of our most unique ecosystems. These huge rocks are sometimes as large as buildings. Grandparents and grandchildren will split up for awhile to explore the rocks, overlooks and trails with guides. Afterward, we'll join together again to share what we discovered.

Dinner: We'll journal for awhile on our return, then have some free time before heading out for a campfire dinner at Audubon.

Evening: Update journals and share highlights of the day. Then take an evening walk to campfire with s'mores and night bugs.

Lodging: Hampton Inn & Suites Warren

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: Breakfast Buffet at the Hampton Inn.

Morning: Enjoy a morning off to explore the world with your grandchildren on your own. You can sleep in if you want, or get up early and head out for a special time of your choice. Local attractions include Midway Park Amusement Park, Chautauqua Gorge for hiking, the Summer Wind boat tour of Chautauqua Lake, the JSB Ice Arena, the Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Center, the Robert H. Jackson Center, the Fenton History Museum. There is also marvelous hiking at the Hatch Run Conservation Area, Anders Run Old Growth Forest, and in the Allegheny National Forest.

Lunch: Enjoy lunch at noon at the hotel before we head back to Audubon for a relaxed afternoon.

Afternoon: Explore the Underworld at Audubon. Many things live under the logs at Audubon, including lungless salamanders and more. Grandparents and grandchildren will pair up to search under logs and rocks at Audubon to see what animals live underground at Audubon. (And don't worry! There are no venomous snakes on our property!)

Dinner: Grandchildren will journal before dinner followed by movie night at the hotel.

Lodging: Hampton Inn & Suites Warren

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Morning birding and kayaking or canoeing with afternoon Monarch butterfly study

Breakfast: Bird walk and breakfast: For the bird lovers in the group, set that alarm early and leave the front entrance at 6:30 am for a bird walk with a local expert. Buffet breakfast for all in the hotel.

Morning: return

Lunch: Enjoy a morning kayak adventure on the slow water of the Conewango Creek. Expect to see herons, ospreys, turtles and more! You never know what may be around the next bend.

Afternoon: Get a hands on experience with the life cycle of the monarch butterfly. We'll take caterpillars and butterflies in hand and learn as much as we can about them and their lives.

Dinner: Dinner at the hotel with a slideshow of photos from the week.

Evening: We'll wrap up the week with skits and fun, as well as a sharing circle to remember the highlights of the week.

Lodging: Hampton Inn & Suites Warren

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: Buffet breakfast at the dormitory

Morning: Many insects begin their lives under water. Search along the banks and even enter into the ponds and streams for insects, adults, nymphs and exuviae. Find out how these provide essential clues, not just about dragonflies and insects, but also about the health of the waters in which they live. Is pollution threatening to wipe out the population? As citizen scientists, you will uncover the answers.

Lunch: Prepare a lunch to eat at the hotel, or make it to go if you want to get on the road.

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch