Brundrett Middle School on Mustang Island is HOT—a cool place to live and visit. Sand, sun, fishing, festivals, 3,370 residents, and a quarter-million visitors—Mustang Island is HIP. What else is HAPPENING on Port Aransas? On Saturday April 30th, a come and go kick-off event about natural and manmade disasters occurs at the Little Picnic Pavilion at Roberts Point Park from 1 P.M.-3 P.M. The event addresses the need for barrier island residents and visitors to develop personal disaster action plans.

Mustang Island is a barrier island that both protects the mainland of South Texas from storms and flooding and serves as a border for the Aransas Channel, a major shipping channel leading into and out of the Port of Corpus Christi. As a barrier island, it is vulnerable to hurricanes, tornadoes, tropical storms, tsunamis, waterspouts, flooding, earthquakes, chemical spills, refinery accidents, and possibly, terrorist activities.

This service-learning event is sponsored by students from Brundrett Middle School and students studying to become middle school teachers at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Service-learning occurs when students apply what they’ve learned to address real-life needs or problems in the community.

Come join the middle school and university students as they share what they’ve learned about barrier islands and natural and manmade disasters. Take away free action plans for each disaster—printed in English and Spanish! Let’s keep Mustang Island HOT, HIP, and HAPPENING!