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The Saturday-at-the-Sea Summer Camp program (SATS Camp) is a week-long experience in marine science offered by invitation only to local students entering the 9th and 10th grades. During the SATS Camp, participants make their own original observations and from them develop a research project to explore these observations and the questions that they spark. During the week, the participants will collect, analyze, and interpret the data from their research project and write and present orally a paper that outlines the conclusions that they draw from the data. They also design and carry out a service project that benefits the marine environment in some way.
The SATS Camp program is not all work, though. There is plenty of time for snorkeling in the lush seagrass beds, playing volleyball, taking field trips to high-energy barrier island habitats (i.e., going to the beach!), making camp t-shirts, and even an overnight stay at the FSU Marine Laboratory with a chance to go night trawling from the pontoon boats. Participants have a great time and get a real sense of what field research is like.
A special goal of the SATS Camp program is to encourage positive, science-related experiences among groups that are traditionally underrepresented in environmental science careers (women and ethnic minorities), but we do not restrict participation in the camp to these groups only. We hope that the SATS Camp experience will encourage them to choose further instruction and, eventually, careers in science as well as raise the environmental consciousness of participants as they learn more about the use of coastal marine resources.
Take a tour of a day at Saturday-at-the-Sea Summer Camp
Saturday-at-the-Sea Summer Camp is a component of the FSU Deprtment of Biological Science's
Office of Science Teaching Activities Program (OSTA)