Total Time: 15 hours, 20 minutes • Provide additional experience
in site selection and designing a viable pond; • Give trainees
an opportunity to be certain that they are comfortable with
these skills as well as to identify and improve aspects that are
still confusing, thus enhancing their selfconfidence; • Practice
extension techniques and receive feedback on their effectiveness
in communicating technical information. Overview: This is the
second project in site selection and pond design. This exercise
takes place near the end of the program, after trainees have
seen a variety of pond types on the field trip. Since this is
often an area of concern for the trainees (an area in which they
lack confidence), the more practice they can get with it the
better, especially as the time for their departure overseas
approaches. Some differences between this project and the first
Site Development exercise are that the trainees work in pairs
rather than groups, they are required to use hand levels, they
choose their own