Each Saturday during the school year, students are engaged in
enrichment programming. Upward Bound students can be found performing
science demonstrations in the Museum's galleries, giving wildlife
encounters or teaching visitors about the butterfly garden in
the Wildlife Center, participating in a book club, learning
to make websites & iMovies, or exploring careers in biomedicine.
On some Saturdays, participants take field trips to places like
parks & botanical gardens, science & technology rich
institutions, and nearby coral reefs. |
Each summer, 50 students are immersed in a 6-week marine science
and technology program. The program operates Monday through
Friday, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. Activities take place at the
Museum, as well as at our partner facilities, the University
of Miami's Rosensteil School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
and the Biscayne Nature Center, a Miami-Dade County Public Schools
facility located in Crandon Park. Students are engaged in hands
on, inquiry-based science, and work in teams to complete research
projects. |
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To better prepare participants for college study, they have
the opportunity to participate in a variety of activities including
seminars to help students identify their interests and skills,
personal advising sessions, tours of colleges and universities
in Florida and Georgia, SAT preparation classes offered in partnership
with Princeton
Review and summer workshops hosted by College
Summit. |
Every day after school - whether during the summer or the regular
academic year - students are welcome at the Museum. Students
have access to the Museum's state-of-the-art computer facility,
which has twenty-four Macintosh G4 workstations, complete with
filtered Internet access and a variety of software programs.
Scanners, color and black & white printers and copy machines
are also available for students to use. A supervisor is always
present in the lab to assist with students' technology needs,
and we have equipment available for students to check out for
work at home and school, including iBook laptop computers, digital
cameras and camcorders. Free tutoring for students is also available
after school, thanks to a partnership with the University of
Miami's work-study program. |
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