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Description: The Alaska SeaLife Center is expanding its summer camp opportunities to take campers on a journey in the marine environment.
Through hands-on activities, students will heighten their interest in the sciences and gain an appreciation for the natural environment.
Discovery Day Camps
Description: The center is hosting six different one-day camps this summer. Each day has a different theme, so students can participate in one or all six. The camps will run two concurrent sessions, one for students entering third through fifth grades and another for those entering sixth through eighth grades.
Ages: Students entering third through fifth grades and those entering sixth through eighth grades
Themes and Dates:
Cost: Members ‹ $60 per camp or $300 for all six; nonmembers ‹ $70 per camp or $360 for all six
Coastal Careers Camp
Description: Campers will get hands-on experience helping scientists and animal trainers with their jobs throughout the center.
This five-day residential camp is designed for students who are seriously thinking about a career in wildlife biology, fisheries or marine animal care. Campers will ob-serve and help out in many areas of the center.
Ages: Students in ninth through 12th grades
Dates: Aug. 1-6
Cost: Members ‹ $475 with housing; $340 without housing; nonmembers ‹ $525 with housing; $375 without housing
Waves and Whales Weekend Camps
Description: Campers will sleep next to sea lions, try scuba gear and experience a wildlife cruise. This residential weekend camp will take participants through a variety of hands-on activities that encourage curiosity and wonder in marine science and research. The camp includes an overnight stay at the Alaska SeaLife Center, a Kenai Fjords boat cruise, marine crafts and interactive marine science classes. The camp will run two concurrent sessions, one for students entering third through fifth grades and another for those entering sixth through eighth grades.
Ages: Students entering third through fifth grades and those entering sixth through eighth grades
Dates: Three weekends are available: June 12-13; July 10-11; and Aug. 7-8
Hours: From 9 a.m. Saturday until 4 p.m. Sunday
Cost: Members ‹ $120; nonmembers ‹ $135
The price includes meals and one overnight stay at the center.
Ocean Adventures Field Camp
Description: This four-day, three-night sea kayak camping trip will bring students into the wild to learn about marine biology from a kayak. The adventure will start at the SeaLife Center where students will complete team-building exercises. Then, students will head to Fox Island to set up a field re-search camp. Time on the island will be spent paddling to different sites where students will complete several research-based activities, including counting seabirds, using radio telemetry equipment and analyzing scat. Evenings will be spent relaxing around a fire. The trip will culminate with a boat tour of Resurrection Bay.
Ages: Students in ninth through 12th grades
Dates: July 25-28
Cost: Members ‹ $475; nonmembers ‹ $525
The price includes all meals, equipment and lodging.
Phone:1-800-224-2525, ext. 6306
E-mail: education@alaska
sealife.org
Web site: www.alaskasea-life.org/site/education
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