2021 Camp Information
We had a great 6th season of Ocean Discovery camp - everyone was very excited to return to in-person instruction this year! ECOGIG was thrilled to be able to offer, for the first time, 6 scholarship spots to bring in campers that otherwise wouldn't be able to attend camp. You can read all about the fun we had here and here.
We are looking forward to seeing campers again in 2022!
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2020 Camp Information
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's camp happened entirely ONLINE, so no photos of all the fun we had are available. Nevertheless, it was a super fun week with lots of great activities - our 5th year of camp was definitely one to remember!
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2019 Camp Information
The fourth year of our Ocean Discovery Camp was a huge success!! We once again partnered with the University of Georgia's summer academy, and enjoyed using the Science Learning Center on UGA's main campus!
Our campers (ages 11-14) explored a number of ocean-themed topics through hands-on projects, crafts (tube worms! sea turtles! trash monsters!), games, videos & photo slideshows. The topics we visited at camp included the ways we explore the deep oceans, amazing ocean ecosystems, chemosynthetic processes and communities & threats to our oceans such as plastic pollution, oil spills & climate change. This year camp included a field trip to our local aquarium store and a day dedicated to sea turtles and plastic pollution in the oceans.
Ocean Discovery campers designed and built their own ROVs (Remotely Operated Vehicles) and test drove them in the pool! The controllers for their ROVs are available for purchase online here.
Our campers also created PSA videos based on some of the ocean topics we touched on throughout the camp!
All of the photos from camp are available on our Facebook page
A big thank you to everyone who helped to make the Ocean Discovery Camp a success again this year!!
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2018 Camp Information
The third year of our Ocean Discovery Camp was a huge success!! We partnered with the University of Georgia's summer academy again, and enjoyed using the Science Learning Center on UGA's main campus!
This year camp was held during World Ocean's Week so we tried to make it a special week, and included a field trip to our local aquarium store and a day dedicated to plastic pollution in the oceans, the theme for this year's World Oceans Day.
Ocean Discovery campers designed and built their own ROVs (Remotely Operated Vehicles) and test drove them in the pool! The controllers for their ROVs are available for purchase online here.
Our campers also created PSA videos based on some of the ocean topics we touched on throughout the camp!
All of the photos from camp are available on our Facebook page
A big thank you to everyone who helped to make the Ocean Discovery Camp a success again this year!!
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2017 Camp Information
The second year of our Ocean Discovery Camp was a huge success!! We partnered with the University of Georgia's summer academy and our campers got to be the first camp held in the new Science Learning Center on campus!
Our campers (ages 11-14) explored a number of ocean-themed topics through hands-on projects, crafts (yarn octopus! tube worms! sea turtles!), games, videos & photo slideshows. The topics we visited at camp included the ways we explore the deep oceans, amazing ocean ecosystems, chemosynthetic processes and communities & threats to our oceans such as plastic pollution, oil spills & climate change.
Ocean Discovery campers designed and built their own ROVs (Remotely Operated Vehicles) and even raced them at the end of camp! The controllers for their ROVs are available for purchase online here. You can watch a short video of their ROVs in action in our video gallery!
Our campers also created stop motion videos based on some of the ocean topics we touched on throughout the camp- we had a creative bunch of campers who produced some amazing works of art! They are vieweable online and in our video gallery!
All of the photos from camp are available on our Facebook page
A big thank you to everyone who helped to make the Ocean Discovery Camp a big success again this year!!
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2016 Camp Information
The inaugural 2016 Ocean Discovery Camp was a huge success - our campers had a great time while becoming young ocean experts. Ocean Discovery campers explored a number of ocean-themed topics through hands-on projects, crafts, games, and presentations. The topics we visited at camp included tools and technology used in deep ocean exploration, features of amazing deepwater ecosystems in our oceans, the arctic ocean ecosystem, sounds in the ocean & threats to our oceans such as plastic pollution, oil spills & climate change.
Ocean Discovery campers learned to build working mini-ROVs (Remotely Operated Vehicles) and test drove them -- all ROVs built at camp were successfully operational!! The kits used at camp are available for purchase from Apogee Kits here.
Campers also created stop-motion videos based on some of the ocean topics we explored at camp- we had a creative bunch of campers who produced fantastic projects. You may view them all here:
Ocean Discovery Camp week one stop motion videos
Ocean Discovery Camp week two stop motion videos
All of the photos from camp are available on our Facebook page- week 1 & week 2
We are grateful for everyone who participated in and helped to make our first ever Ocean Discovery Camp a big success!!
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