We officially kicked off our program activities at the beginning of this month by taking our students on our first field trip to visit the famous Fallingwater home. Built in the 1930s, Fallingwater is a house designed by world-renowned American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. It was commissioned by the Kaufman family as their private…
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The EnvironMentors National Science Fair is the culminating event of the EnvironMentors program, during which the top three winners from each EnvironMentors’s chapters across the country gather to present their research projects and compete for the top award prizes. The National Science Fair is held every year in Washington D.C, home of the EnvironMentors…
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On March 15th, 2019 we took our high school student participants on a trip to the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO). The Shale Hills CZO was established in 2007, with the goal of studying and understanding how the forested, first-order catchment of the shale bedrock in central PA evolves over multiple time…
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On Saturday, February 23rd, 2019, Dr. Ismaela Dabo, Assistant Professor of Materials Sciences and Engineering, and Dr. Tom Richards, Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering and Director of the Penn State Institute for Energy and the Environment (IEE); led a presentation and workshop for our EnvironMentors students. Dr. Dabo conducted a computer lab on…
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On Saturday, February 16th, 2019, we held a Science seminar, where we invited a few of Penn State, University Park’s faculty members, Post Docs, and graduates students from different colleges and departments across campus, got to talk to our students. The faculty members, Post Docs, and graduates shared stories about their journeys in the STEM…
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