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NC Space Grant and Sea Grant Join 2022 NC UNITE Summer Experience: Photo Gallery

July 14, 2022 2-min. read

Facilitated by Fayetteville State University, NC UNITE is seeks to expose students to a wide range of STEM careers to encourage their interest in pursuing college majors and careers. Supported by the Army Educational Outreach Program and Fort Bragg School Services, UNITE is a pre-collegiate summer experience for high school students from groups historically underrepresented in STEM.

Two young women watching a small remote-controlled aircraft flying in a room. One woman is holding a tablet.
Students control a small drone as they explore more about aeronautical technologies.
Two young men use a tablet to pilot a small drone.
Watch your head! These drones respond to inputs from a tablet computer that students hold.
A classroom of students, each with a black case on the table in front of them. An instructor stands at the front of the room.
Though they can’t go to space yet, students can visit the ISS with the help of VR technology.
Two students are wearing VR headsets and holding the controllers. Two adults stand in the background supervising them.
VR allows students to participate in space travel within an immersive environment.
A student sits with a virtual reality headset and holding a controller in each hand. A woman is beside them, pointing at one of the controllers
Using an Oculus VR headset, students were able to explore all aspects of the ISS.
A man stands in front of a projector image titled "Flight on Mars". Three students are sitting at a long desk and listening to the man.
A NC Space education ambassador talks to students about the logistics of exploration on Mars.
A group of students following an instructor and using glue sticks on small pieces of paper.
Building the Mars Rover is no easy task. Students are getting hands-on experience with building an electronic vehicle.
three students are cutting cardboard and straws for a wheeled cart. A woman stands over their shoulder to supervise
Students worked on creating carts from electronics, straws, and cardboard.
Two students are handling cardboard and straws to create a small car. One student is attaching wheels to the straws while the other references his phone
Students puzzling together a small cardboard, battery-powered cart.
A young woman is touching a turtle that is being held out to her.
Turtles or tortoises? A student pets a small turtle (the kind that swims) on its shell.
A young woman sitting in front of an instructor. The instructor is holding a lizard in both han
It’s okay, he doesn’t bite! An instructor shows a student a local tiger salamander.
A boy looking through a telescope. A penny is placed on the viewing platform
Students used different types of microscopes to closely examine objects.
Microscope closeup of green blobs of algae floating in a cloudy substance.
Algae from a water source in Clark Park Nature Center as viewed under a microscope.
Two students crowd around a microscope. The student on the right is looking through the lens while the student on the right watches on
Students looking at a water sample under high magnification.
A group of four students and an instructor huddle around bottles of algae water. The student in the center is pipetting some of the algae water into another bottle.
To prepare for microscopy, students drop samples of water onto glass slides.
In a field, a woman is holding a small snake in both hands and is offering it to a student. The snake's head is moving towards the student's finger
A very small brown snake was found during the group’s outing.
Three boys hold up a long plank of wood while an instructor leans over to dig through fallen leaves. A fourth student looks on.
There’s a whole world hiding under fallen logs and old benches if you know where to look. Students look for wildlife under a hoverboard.
In a forest clearing, an instructor holds a small object in her hand for two students to look at.
A Sea Grant ambassador shows students their findings. Students learned about local flora and fauna during their time at Unite.
A group of students stand together in a forest clearing, looking at a snail that is curled in one of the students' hand.
Curled tightly in its hiding spot, this snail hid away while students took a long look at its shell.
In a forest clearing, a student holds out a shed snake skin and a brown leaf to the camera.
A student shows a long strip of snakeskin that was found. Snakes shed their skin regularly as they grow.
A tadpole lies within someone's hand.
A freshly caught tadpole lays in a student’s hand. The students caught and released these amphibians as they studied aspects of herpetology.
Four students and an instructor stand in a marshy area, one student holds a net on a long pole while another one uses their pole to scoop up something from a muddy pool.
Students are “fishing” for tadpoles and other small animals in a muddy pond at Clark Park Nature Center. Samples of the water were also taken to look for protists and algae later in the day.

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