Academic Outreach

Summer camp season has just wrapped up at Georgia College & State University. Students from across Georgia were here to participate in sports, band, academic and other summer activities.   For Science Camp this year, students had a mystery to solve. Students picked “mysteries” for the theme. Before it concluded, rising sixth through ninth graders investigated and forensically analyzed a mock crime scene. They didn’t work alone. High schoolers in the university’s Young Scientist Academy...

Some Georgia College students will be doing a lot of streaming on winter break—but not the kind you do on Netflix. Home for the holidays, they’re not idle. Fifty students from all majors have turned ‘citizen scientist’ to monitor waterways in 26 counties across Georgia. They’ll make visual assessments, analyze chemical markers and log information to the state’s Adopt-A-Stream database. “This is truly a unique, cooperative and co-curricular experience that only a place like Georgia...