The Lafayette (LA) Daily Advertiser (4/16, Wyatt) reports on the beginning of “a two-year partnership between Bayou Vermilion District, the Lafayette Parish School System and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette” that received a $99,121 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Bay-Watershed Education and Training Program. The program seeks to introduce young students to ecology and preservation, driving them to apply skills learned in the classroom to test the composition of the Bayou Vermillion. While the program only draws students from the Comeaux High School, Lafayette Middle School and the David Thibodaux STEM Magnet Academy, officials hope the program will draw students from across the parish. UL research scientist Whitney Broussard, the principal investigator of the grant, said the program is going “better than I could have expected.”