MVPGR tour as part of: CREST STEM Camp - For Middle School July 31-Aug. 4 (middle school) – 9 am – 4 pm – for students entering 6th – 8th grades / no cost Students bring their own lunches, snacks, and water bottles each day. Engaging activities focused on the National Science Foundation-funded CREST center’s research and education mission in engineering, biological science, physics, chemistry, math, and computational science will include hands-on activities, projects, lectures, discussions, trainings, research activities, campus tours, lab tours, and interactions with scientists and engineers. Activities will be led by graduate students, faculty, staff, and alumni in STEM fields on a college campus. The sessions will enrich students’ understanding of the opportunities abundant in STEM fields, as well as the capacity of STEM to positively impact people and the world. Students will also get a better understanding of what it is like to do scientific research and the variety of careers pathways in STEM. https://ucmerced.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eWJDOesIPgbUMV8 MVPGR Activity: bird identification and use of binoculars

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