Catawba College News Service
Rising sixth- or seventh-grade girls interested in the environmental sciences are invited to make application to attend the Catawba Conservation Camp (C3). The camp is open to girls who are enrolled in public or private school or who are home-schooled in Rowan, Cabarrus, Iredell, Davie, Davidson and Stanly counties
Catawba Conservation Camp is a weeklong residential science camp slated for July 5-10 and open only to rising sixth- and seventh-grade girls. It will be held on the campus of Catawba College. C3 accommodates only 55 and includes all meals, a weeklong stay in a residence hall and daily activities.
Participating students not only stay in a college dorm, but they band birds, explore lakes and woods, identify and tally plant life, explore amphibian and aquatic life such as frogs, fish and turtles, examine insects, and make new friends who love science. C3 director is Dr. Cyndi Osterhus, director of Catawba’s Academy for Teaching. Science instruction will be facilitated by a team of public school teachers and college faculty led by Dr. Joe Poston, chair of biology at Catawba College.
The camp, funded through a grant from Burroughs Wellcome Fund, is an effort to interest girls in the environmental sciences. The grant allows funding for all costs, except for a student’s $25 non-refundable registration fee and transportation to and from the college. Financial assistance is available for any family for whom the registration fee is a hardship.
Interested girls should complete and return the C3 application to their teachers by March 16. The application includes a short essay written by the student that answers the question: “Why do you want to attend the Catawba Conservation Camp?” Selected students will be notified of acceptance and provided more information by April 1. For additional information, call Catawba College’s Academy for Teaching at 704-637-4499 or visit the website at www.catawba.edu/c3.