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WVU hosts summer STEM camp focused on energy industry diversity

More than a dozen students wearing blue work clothes and hard hats stand in a factory room with gray walls.

Participants in E3: Energy, Environment and Excitement Summer Camp from the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design's Energy Land Management program are part of an immersive STEM-based education camp focused on diversifying the energy industry. (WVU Photo)

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WHAT: The Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design's Energy Land Management program is leading E3: Energy, Environment and Excitement Summer Camp, an immersive STEM-based education camp.

The goal of E3 is to increase diversity within the energy industry workforce as well as the WVU Energy Land Management program.

Participating 8th and 9th grade students are experiencing STEM-based learning with cutting-edge land management software and GIS. They’re also getting out-of-classroom adventures at the Davis College Experimental Forest with Adventure WV

WHEN: Through Saturday, July 23

WHERE: Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design, WVU Evansdale Campus

NOTES: Media are welcome to attend different activities each day. Interviews are available with faculty members, students and sponsors.

Highlights

  • Southwestern Energy presentation from Davis College alumni, July 21, noon, Cafe Evansdale
  • End of camp student presentations, July 23, 10-11 a.m., 316 Percival Hall

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MEDIA CONTACT: Leah Smith
Interim Director of Marketing and Communications
Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design
304-290-8680; lnestor2@mail.wvu.edu 

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