In This Issue
2008-09 School Programs
RiverQuest Feature
RiverQuest Programs
RiverQuestion of the Month
 
 
 
 

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May 2008
 
 
School Program Registration for 2008-2009 is Open

Even as the mayflies of spring are being tallied, it's time to secure school field trip dates for next school year.  Dates are available from September through mid-November 2008 and late March through mid-June 2009. 

Schools throughout the area are receiving the new RiverQuest Course Catalog for 2008-09.  Featured in the catalog are the flagship Environmental Science and Community River Education programs, Teacher Workshops, and newly expanded offerings specially tailored for grades 2-4.

We're happy to make a copy of the catalog available to curriculum supervisors, PTO groups, and interested classroom teachers as well.  Contact RiverQuest at 412-231-2712 to request a catalog, or to make your school's reservation for the coming new school year.

> Click here for more information: RiverQuest Education Programs

 

University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health & RiverQuest to promote Science Careers
 

 
 

This summer, six high school students will take part in the University of Pittsburgh Shortterm Training Education Experience in Research, or PITT-STEER.

The goal of the ten-week experience is to encourage entry of students into careers in biomedical research and environmental health science.  Participating students will conduct original research under the mentored supervision of experts from the university's acclaimed Graduate School of Public Health, along with principal investigator Dr. Bruce Pitt, and a core of mentors funded by the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences.   Four days of the program will utilize the RiverQuest fleet and staff as platforms for research and learning about freshwater environments and environmental health.

Participating students represent selected individuals from a large and outstanding pool of candidates of emerging junior and senior high school students in the Pittsburgh Public School system, and is based on teacher recommendation, student transcripts, and student interest.

 
   

 
Get on Board for Saturday Adventures

Sails Scheduled for May-June include the following trips:

  • May 31: It's Alive! Ecoadventure, 11:00am
  • May 24 & June 7: Green Science, 11:00am
  • June 21: Summer SCOUT DAY for boys and girls
> Click here for more information: Saturday Sails
 
RiverQuest on the move this Fall

RiverQuest returns to Greene County this fall for several weeks of environmental science-themed school fieldtrips, private and group charters and public tours on our houseboat laboratory.
 

Pittsburgh has three rivers, right?  Every now and again you might hear about a mysterious fourth river that flows, unseen, beneath the city.

Is there really a fourth river in Pittsburgh?

 

Click here for May's RiverQuestion of the Month.

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