The Junior Watershed Stewards club serves as a pipeline, bringing students to the summer youth program, called Restoring the Environment and Developing Youth, or READY. Through that program young people earn $10 an hour to learn about environmental stewardship and then to work on projects like maintaining rain gardens, or ridding a creek of invasive phragmite. The pilot program for READY took place in 2015, when 10 people worked for four weeks. It doubled in size the next summer, to more than 40 people working for eight weeks.