Field Trips

The Summer Science Program offers participants extracurricular opportunities to learn outside of the classroom. Over the course of the five weeks on campus, participants visit local scientific, cultural, and recreational destinations. During a typical summer, trips might include:

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

• Morehead Planetarium
• Durham Bulls Baseball Game
• Historic Franklin Street
• Wrightsville Beach

University of Colorado Boulder

• National Institute for Standards and Technology
• National Center for Atmospheric Research
• Fiske Planetarium
• Pearl Street pedestrian mall

Purdue University

• Dow AgroSciences world headquarters
• The Envision Center
• Eli Lilly world R&D headquarters
• AsedaSciences
• Turkey Run State Park

Indiana University

• Indianapolis Zoo
• Turkey Run State Park
• Lilly Library
• Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art
• Wells-Metz Theatre

New Mexico State University

• White Sands National Park
• New Mexico Museum of Space History
• Carlsbad Caverns National Park