In this short video, youth Conservation and Environmental Stewardship Apprentices teach you about local species at Cabrillo National Monument and challenge you to create a riddle about species you find in your neighborhood. This video is part of Write Out, a collaboration between the National Park Service and National Writing Project.

Started in 2017 at Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego, California, the EcoLogik Project is a free and unique program that fuses ecology and technology and connects young, underrepresented female explorers and scientists (ages 10-16) to the natural resources and science of America’s National Parks. EcoLogik participants learn and incorporate technological advances and knowledge of the environment to collect natural resource data (community science), create 3D printed biomodels, learn basic coding and programming, and much more!