Eager campers will top-off their week of learning with a trip to a cattle ranch
Destination Exploration, in collaboration with Carlson Cattle Company and Dr. Lorraine Beaudin, will be offering its very first Farm Camp – July 23-27. Campers will discover how science and technology helps keep fresh food on the table through hands-on experiments and activities. The week of camp will be topped off with a visit to a beautiful working ranch, west of Magrath.
Led by veteran instructors Sam Macphee and Humaira Enayetullha, the camp is intended to inspire youth to think about where their food comes from while learning something new.
“This will be the first time that some of these children are seeing cattle up close on a working ranch,” says Program Coordinator Laura Keffer-Wilkes. “We want them to have fun and to also understand that food production is complex and requires technology, science and engineering to keep everyone well fed.”
Activities will see campers growing their own bean, building a tractor, using a virtual sandbox to learn about topographic maps, and enjoying visits to the Campus Roots Community Garden and Dr. Rene Barendregt’s geology lab. For the final day of camp, Beaudin has invited the campers to her property to see ranching in action.
Destination Exploration Summer Camps are organized by an amazing team of dedicated staff. Camp instructors have put in a great deal of effort to make this summer a great one for campers. Camp is also made possible by wonderful volunteers, and management staff.
For more information and to register, please visit the Destination Exploration website: http://www.uleth.ca/destination-exploration/summer-camps
When: July 23 to 27, 2018 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily
Where: Alberta Water and Environmental Science Building, University of Lethbridge Campus and Carlson Cattle Company, Magrath, 51011 Range Road 231.
Media Availability: Media are invited to attend during camp hours Monday to Friday.
Contact(s):
Laura Keffer-Wilkes (kefferwilkesl@uleth.ca) 403-382-7121
Program Coordinator – Destination Exploration
Valerie Archibald (Valerie.archibald@uleth.ca) 403-382-7161
Director of Youth Outreach – Faculty of Arts & Science
Lorraine Beaudin (beaulc@uleth.ca) 403-795-1143
Associate Professor – Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge
Carlson Cattle Company
ABOUT Destination Exploration:
Destination Exploration is Lethbridge’s leading youth science outreach organization. We strive to provide our participants with a positive and exciting educational experience in science, technology, engineering and math programs. We offer interactive classroom workshops, stimulating summer camps, inspiring afterschool clubs, as well as special events and science-themed birthday parties. Our programs have been growing steadily since they originated in 2002, and now reach over 4000 youth each year in Lethbridge and its surrounding areas. Please visit our website http://www.uleth.ca/destination-exploration/ for more information.
We are a proud network member of Actua. Actua provides training, resources and support to its national network of members located at universities and colleges across Canada in the delivery of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education outreach programming.
Each year, these members engage over 225 000 youth in 500 communities nationwide.
Please visit Actua at www.actua.ca.
