Tuesday, May 2

• Take Over Tuesday on our social media pages!  It will kick off with an introduction to STEM and explore all things STEM at Zoo Atlanta!
• Zoo STEM Careers:  We will be Facebook live streaming three 5 – 10 minute interviews throughout the day with Zoo Atlanta staff speaking about their STEM careers!

Friday, May 5

• Visit 4 STEM Stations throughout the Zoo from 10:00am – 1:00pm! After completing each activity, you will get a correlating sticker that spells out STEM!

Tuesday, May 2

• Take Over Tuesday on our social media pages!  It will kick off with an introduction to STEM and explore all things STEM at Zoo Atlanta!
• Zoo STEM Careers:  We will be Facebook live streaming three 5 – 10 minute interviews throughout the day with Zoo Atlanta staff speaking about their STEM careers!

Friday, May 5

• Visit 4 STEM Stations throughout the Zoo from 10:00am – 1:00pm! After completing each activity, you will get a correlating sticker that spells out STEM!

Thursday May 4^th

GSTC will have a Distance Learning opportunity from within our treatment room.  We will feature STEM based careers including veterinary medicine and field based research including screening for wildlife health parameters. While this will happen live from 10-11 am on our Facebook page, it will also be recorded and available online for those who cannot attend the live program!

Friday May 5^th  

Our STEM Day celebration will include a table in the GSTC Exhibit Gallery dedicated to highlighting different STEM based research happening on Jekyll Island!  This will include updates from our AmeriCorps Research members and UGA graduate students working on Jekyll Island.  We hope to highlight technologies ranging from GPS mapping to radio telemetry and even drone based film footage for tracking and monitoring turtle species!  We have field trip groups visiting throughout the day whose programming will be augmented with this feature and will host Leadership Georgia in the afternoon for a special behind the scenes tour which will also highlight some of these aspects of the work conducted from the GSTC and its collaborators.

All of our staff will be wearing a letter from STEM that they use most in their career, and you are invited to engage with them about what their daily work looks like, how they got into their career, and what they love most about working at Georgia Aquarium. We challenge you to talk to someone that represents each letter in STEM! Learn more about our discounted pricing for school groups or purchase individual tickets today to secure your spot!

In preparation for your visit, we also recommend that you check out our new interdisciplinary curricular materials designed for grades 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12! Each set of resources includes an overview of Georgia Aquarium, inquiry-based lessons for each gallery, games and puzzles, and additional resources. Connecting Georgia Aquarium to your classroom is easy: please reference the end of each package to see curricular connections to Common Core Math and English Language Arts standards, Next Generation Science standards, and state-specific standards for Georgia, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

Can’t make it to the Aquarium? Check out our STEAM Forward video series! Did you know that Georgia Aquarium’s habitats hold over ten million gallons of water and more than 100,000 animals? Have you ever wondered what all of those animals eat or what it takes to keep those habitats clean? Here’s another fun fact: one-third of the United States is forested. That’s 766 million acres, or 20% more trees than we had in 1970! How do you think companies like Georgia-Pacific and their 35,000 employees from all over the world balance the needs of their customers – lumber for homes and schools, paper for books, boxes, tissues and towels – with the protection of endangered forests and conservation of forest diversity? What kinds of careers exist at institutions like this, and what skills do you need to get those jobs?

In response to these types of questions, Georgia Aquarium and Georgia-Pacific have partnered together on an exciting new video series called STEAM Forward! This free educational resource designed for middle school students highlights the variety of STEAM career pathways that exist within our organizations by peeling back the layers of our operations and meeting the experts behind the scenes. Starting by taking a close look at our own institutional ecosystem, you will meet authorities in fields including life support engineering, chemistry, and nutrition that make Georgia Aquarium’s heart beat each day. Each video is 5-7 minutes long and are a great way to celebrate STEM day from afar.

As the global leader in rolled aluminum products and recycling, Novelis seeks to educate children and communities about the importance of recycling.  This past October, Novelis teamed up with Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital education and professional development for K-12 classrooms, to offer free, standards-aligned digital learning tools for classrooms and families nationwide that explore the never-ending lifecycle of a recycled aluminum can.  In doing so, Novelis is hoping to inspire classrooms to implement recycling programs of their own.  Life of a Can also features national hockey league defenseman, former Stanley Cup Champion, and “eco-athlete,” Andrew Ference, to drive home the importance of recycling and underscore our individual impact on the environment.

While incorporating key concepts related to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), Life of a Can educates the future generation on key recycling facts such as the $1.5 billion total value of aluminum sent needlessly to landfills every year in North America alone.

Visit Life of a Can: The Never-ending Story and share these new tools with your constituents as together we celebrate the importance of recycling and being great environmental stewards on Georgia STEM Day.

On Wednesday May 3rd please join us for a facebook live feed where we will get even more batty about bats! In addition to our new Straw Colored bats, Chehaw has many different populations of bats in the park. Tune in to discover the many different research projects Chehaw conducts to help monitor wild bat populations!

Friday, May 5^th, 5:00 – 8:00 pm

X-drenaline Trampoline Park, East Cobb

1611 Roswell Rd, Marietta GA 30062

770-604-1367

$10.00 for 60 minute unlimited pass (savings of $12 when you mention STEM)

Jump socks required: can be purchased for $3 at X-drenaline

Saturday, May 6^th, 4:00 – 6:00 pm

RUSH, Athens

10 Huntington Rd. Suite B Athens, GA 30606

706-548-4470

$10.00 for 60 minute pass (save $3 when you mention STEM night)

Jump socks required: can be purchased for $3 at RUSH

In celebration of GA STEM Day, MathMindWorkshop.com is partnering with local trampoline parks X-drenaline in East Cobb and RUSH in Athens to explore the STEM of bounce. Join us for hands-on physics and math experiments involving gravity and energy and a STEM engineering project. With the completion of each activity students will earn a raffle ticket that goes into a drawing for a free week of our STEM Summer Camp! The classroom with the highest attendance will also receive a free gift so rally your classmates and come join the fun as we “jump” into GA STEM Day! For more information visit mathmindworkshop.com or email mathmind@mathmindworkshop.com.