Colorado River GeoJourney

If you crave education in action, the great outdoors, and building community then you should consider this once in a lifetime opportunity to learn how the geosciences are utilized in multiple facets of daily life. Our GeoJourney course for newly admitted NC State students will explore the relationships between the geosciences and society along one of North America’s greatest waterways – the Colorado River.

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Summer Camp

Our free summer camp, themed “Exploring the Earth”, is a week-long day-camp held in June for high school students on NC State University’s campus (see map below). The aim of the camp is to make the geoscience fun, exciting and relevant while also raising student interest and awareness of potential geoscience majors and careers. Participating students…

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Open House Events

Interested in exploring the variety of geoscience research conducted at NC State? Geoscientists in the Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences are hosting a series of open house events to make their labs and work spaces accessible to students in middle and high school. See below for descriptions of upcoming open house events. For descriptions…

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Educators’ Workshop 2019

Designed for earth science and environmental science high school teachers, our educators’ workshops help facilitate the needs of educators within the Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) and surrounding counties. Teams of high-school teachers, research faculty and GEOPATHS facilitators will design new educational resources to design lessons to teach essential standards for earth and environmental…

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