Dinosaur Academy (Wyoming Dinosaur Center)
Dinosaur Academy is a 5-day, in-depth course at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center for students in grades 9-12 focused on vertebrate fossils of the Morrison Formation. Students get classroom instruction plus hands-on field excavation and laboratory work covering fossil preparation, mapping, specimen identification, and museum display techniques.
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Introduction to Fossils is a week-long, high-school-level paleontology intensive at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. Students work alongside paleontology experts to learn field and lab skills and travel to a nearby Montana fossil site to explore the region's geology.
Penn State Weather Camp / Advanced Weather Camp
Weeklong residential summer program at Penn State's Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science. Weather Camp (students entering grades 8-10) and Advanced Weather Camp (students entering grades 11-12) teach forecasting, severe weather, and research through hands-on instruction from Penn State faculty and current meteorology students.
Paleontology Academy California (Sternberg Museum)
Paleontology Academy California, run by Fort Hays State University's Sternberg Museum of Natural History, is a two-week residential program on the Santa Cruz coast where students ages 15-18 study marine paleobiology, comparing living coastal species to their extinct relatives through fossil-site fieldwork and visits to the UC Museum of Paleontology and Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Sierra Nevada Field Campus Field Geology Course (SF State)
A field-based geology course run by San Francisco State University at its Sierra Nevada Field Campus near Sierra City, CA. Students hike and camp in the Sierra Buttes/Haskell Peak area learning to read rock formations from Paleozoic metamorphic rock through Tertiary volcanics to Pleistocene glacial deposits, including the region's gold-mining history.
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USC Pre-College: The Science of Food, Nutrition and the Biological World
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