Muddy Sneakers relocates Piedmont office to Catawba College Center for the Environment The 13-year-old organization has an office in the North Carolina mountains as well as in the Piedmont. (Source: Submitted photo) By David Whisenant | February 15, 2021 at 4:25 PM EST - Updated February 19 at 4:58 PM
SALISBURY, N.C. (WBTV) - Muddy Sneakers, a nonprofit that works with fifth-graders teaching hands-on science education in the outdoors, has moved its Piedmont office from downtown Salisbury to the Center for the Environment at Catawba College.
The 13-year-old organization has an office in the North Carolina mountains as well as in the Piedmont. Currently, the organization reaches 2,000 fifth graders in 39 public schools in 19 counties. In Rowan County, Muddy Sneakers has worked with Isenberg, Mt. Ulla, Overton, West Rowan Elementary, Hurley, China Grove, Granite Quarry, Knollwood, Koontz, Cleveland, and Hanford Dole schools.