For the third year in a row, students from Belleville Henderson Middle School were able to participate in environmental monitoring activities as part of the Day in the Life of Lake Ontario – St. Lawrence River student summit event, held this year at Westcott beach State Park on September, 30th. NYSDEC, and partners from NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and SLELO PRISM engaged 38 students in assessing the lands and invasive species presence, waters, water chemistry, and macroinvertebrates within the tributary at Westcott beach and along the lakeshore, and students developed an understanding, sense of place, and learned about stewarding the watershed. Data collected from the monitoring activities will be shared on the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation’s “Day in the Life of Lake Ontario -St. Lawrence River” website.