Registration

• A. 2/13/20, 9:30-11:45 am - Columbus Waterworks – $20.00
  Tour the Water Treatment Plant and see the chemistry behind water treatment.
• B. 2/13/20, 9:45-12:15 pm - Civil War Naval Museum – $25.00
  Looking to connect your STEAM program with history? This is the field trip for you! This guided tour will take you through the technological advances in Civil War era Naval technology. See the USS Monitor and CSS Albemarle ironclad warships!
• C. 2/13/19, 12:30-3:30:30 pm - Oxbow Meadows – $30.00
  Learn about the different STEAM LABS available. Participants will take part in the popular lab, Hop to It! During this lab, participants will learn about invasive species and will engineer a solution for preserving native species.The trip will include animal presentations, as well as a scenic walk on the TreeTop Canopy Trail. Suspended 35 feet above the ground, and linked to three platforms surrounding magnificent oaks, hickories, and sweet gum trees, the Canopy Trail offers views of diverse flora, and creatures native to our region.
• E. 2/13/20, 2:00 - 4:30 pm - Geology Tour of the Columbus Region – $10.00
  A driving tour of Columbus including Flat Rock Park, whitewater course in downtown Columbus, and other locations. Participants will be provided with an overview of local 600 million-year-old metamorphic and igneous rocks exposed in Lindsay Creek that formed at the "roots" of the ancient Appalachian Mountains, as well as overlying 100 million year old Cretaceous sediment and paleosol (ancient soil) that formed on top of that deeply eroded mountain range following the "birth" of the Atlantic Ocean. Dress appropriately for the weather.
• F. 2/14/20, 8:30-11:30 am - Oxbow Meadows – $30.00
  Field trip participants will learn about the available STEAM LABS for older students. They will take part In the Cleaning up an Oil Spill LAB, participants will learn about how humans impact the environment and will design a tool to clean up an oil spill. The trip will include animal presentations, as well as a scenic walk on the TreeTop Canopy Trail. Suspended 35 feet above the ground, and linked to three platforms surrounding magnificent oaks, hickories, and sweet gum trees, the Canopy Trail offers views of diverse flora, and creatures native to our region.
• G. 2/14/20 8:30-12:45 FDR State Park and The Cove – $10.00
  A half-day trip to FDR State Park and a proposed impact crater (the "Woodbury" structure or "Cove") near Woodbury, GA. The trip will cover the geology of the region around FDR State Park, including the origin of the rocks that hold up Pine and Oak Mountain ridges. After a stop at the park, participants will then travel to Woodbury, GA to discuss a circular topographic structure that has been alternatively referred to as the Cove dome or Woodbury Impact Structure. While there, we will examine two competing models for the structure - a large fold in the local rock layers vs. an asteroid impact crater - in the context of the geology of the region and try to understand why different geologists looking at the same data often come to differing conclusions. Bring lunch money, we will get lunch in Manchester, GA on the return trip. Dress appropriately for the weather.
• J. 2/14/20 10:30-12:00 Walking Geology Tour of Columbus – $10.00
  Join Bill Waggener as he discusses how geology can be experienced everywhere in Georgia even right outside the Columbus Conference Center!  This is a walking tour so bring comfy shoes and a jacket.
• K. 2/14/20 12:45-3:00 Coca Cola Space Science Center
  The Coca Cola Space Science Center offers a premier space science and astronomy hands-on experience. Visit the Westrock observatory, the Challenger Learning Center, and see more than $17 million in NASA artifacts.