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Integrated Science and Career Exploration Course for High Schoolers

Hutchinson Center

Are you interested in STEM and hands-on research? Want to explore STEM career options and educational opportunities this summer in midcoast Maine? Build science skills, gain research experience or strengthen academic skills in preparation for college? INT 188 is the class for you. Rising 11th–12th grade high school students can take this college course at […]

Virtual 4-H Summer Series: Choose Health, Food, Fun, and Fitness

Online

This 6-lesson series includes information about nutrition, exercise, and a hands-on cooking experience. Lessons include: learning how to make healthier choices with your hydration; coloring your plate (eating more vegetables and fruit); read it before you eat it (learning how to understand nutritional labels); make half your grains whole (the benefit of eating whole grains); […]

Microbes and Social Equity Symposium, Session 2: Blending Biological, Social and Humanities Writing (online)

Online

Symposium: This symposium will focus on developing research skills to create transformative research, including context-aware experimental designs, engaging community stakeholders as research partners, writing transdisciplinary papers, translating research into policy, and creating curriculum which melds microbes and social equity. Session: Interdisciplinary experimental designs have been called for in research, but finding a publication venue can […]

From Dream to Discovery

Versant Power Astronomy Center 167 Rangeley Rd., Orono

Join NASA’s engineers as they design, test and launch today’s hottest missions into space. Witness the enormity of the new James Webb Space Telescope, the intensity of Goddard Space Flight Center’s testing facilities, and the excitement of the New Horizons mission to Pluto. From blueprint to blastoff, experience how robotic space flight is pushing the […]

Virtual 4-H Summer Series: 4-H Citizen Science

Online

Did you know that YOU are a scientist and can contribute to the science community? This virtual 4–H club encourages youth to practice citizen science in their own backyard, with a variety of science opportunities to consider, and report their observations while making connections with fellow citizen scientists in their community and around the state. […]

Preserving the Harvest: Pickling Basics, July 19, 2022

University of Maine Cooperative Extension Oxford County 9 Olson Road, South Paris

Ever wonder how to preserve all those great garden vegetables? This hands-on food preservation workshop will teach you the basic steps for pickling, canning, and freezing. Participants will receive a “Preserving the Harvest” food preservation packet, and will learn recommended methods for preserving foods, the latest and safest recipes, about equipment to insure safety and […]

Master Food Preserver Program in Falmouth: Session 4

Brunswick High School 116 Maquoit Rd, Brunswick

Do you enjoy the art and science of food preservation? Would you like to develop expertise in food preservation? Consider becoming a Master Food Preserver. What is a Master Food Preserver? Master Food Preservers serve to extend Extension’s education programs in food preservation to adults and youth. The Master Food Preserver serves as a volunteer […]

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