Academic Outreach

Water Education Week: Oct. 13-19, 2024
Announcement    Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Join the Aquatic Sciences Center and Academic Outreach next week for Water Education Week. There's so much planned!  River cleanups, stream monitoring, a movie with a water theme, a symposium and Water Education Day will wrap up the week on Saturday. Here are a few details:Wednesday: Tanyard Creek Clean-up and Stream monitoring (3 p.m. - 5 p.m. Meet at Herty Hall): https://forms.office.com/r/k40SVsqu1aThursday: Movie Night starts at 6 p.m. https://forms.office.com/r/4uJUuHMgM5Friday:...
Georgia Adopt-a-Stream monitoring: You can make a positive impact
Announcement    Monday, September 16, 2024
Want to learn more about campus while making a positive impact? Join us Friday, Sept. 20, for chemical monitoring of several streams that run through or impact Georgia College & State University:  Champion Creek at Lake Laurel (9 - 10 a.m.) at Georgia College's East Campus Tobler Creek at Andalusia Farm (10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.)Tanyard Creek by College Station (2:30 - 3:30 p.m.) No experience necessary. Be sure to wear closed-toed shoes that can get wet. We will use Georgia Adopt-a-Stream...
Georgia Adopt-a-Stream monitoring: You can make a positive impact
Event    Friday, September 20, 2024
Want to learn more about campus while making a positive impact? Join us Friday, Sept. 20, for chemical monitoring of several streams that run through or impact Georgia College & State University:  Champion Creek at Lake Laurel (9 - 10 a.m.) at Georgia College's East Campus Tobler Creek at Andalusia Farm (10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.)Tanyard Creek by College Station (2:30 - 3:30 p.m.) No experience necessary. Be sure to wear closed-toed shoes that can get wet. We will use Georgia Adopt-a-Stream...
Chemical Testing Kit and Champion Creek
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GCSU students and young scientists mentor even-younger science campers
News Story    Friday, July 7, 2023
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...
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Students get feet wet adopting streams during winter break
News Story    Tuesday, December 22, 2020
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...
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