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More than 700 students will visit Michigan Tech’s Great Lakes Research Center next week.
The 7th Annual Lake Superior Water Festival takes place Wednesday, October 17th and includes students in grades 4-12 from ten schools in Houghton, Baraga, and Gogebic Counties.
Students from the following schools will be participating: Baraga High School, Barkell Elementary, CLK Elementary, EB Holman School, Houghton Middle School, Ironwood High School, Jeffers Middle School, Lake Linden-Hubbell Middle School, South Range Elementary, and Washington Middle School.
Twenty-four different sessions will be offered throughout the day, presented by Michigan Tech scientists, and graduate students, along with U.S. Coast Guard, Ottawa National Forest, Isle Royale National Park, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, BHK AmeriCorps and Copper Harbor Trails Club.
The Water Festival provides an opportunity for students to learn about and celebrate our most precious natural resource – the Great Lakes! A wide variety of topics from science and engineering to creative writing will be presented. Students attend four 35-minute activities. Some of the topics to be presented include Remotely-Operated- Vehicles, Leave No Trace Outdoors, cleaning wastewater, Careers with the U.S. Coast Guard, the Chemistry of Corrosion, Design a Fog Harvester, and more.
The 2018 Water Festival is coordinated by the MTU Center for Science & Environmental Outreach, with funding from the Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative and Michigan Tech’s Great Lakes Research Center.
