Cherokee Science Investigation

The “CSI: Cherokee Science Investigation” program is a summer camp for middle school Cherokee students. The program provides a two-week long early summer camp for students to excel in the sciences: Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Biology, Geology, and Chemistry. The program also offers a week-long technology and engineering camp dealing with robotics in late summer. To provide a continuum of learning, students who attend the early summer camp will attend a fall and spring Saturday Academy. Cherokee Central Schools fund a robotics team to compete in LEGO League tournaments throughout the year.

Approximately 30 percent of all middle grade students each summer have the opportunity to connect their culture with the natural world. Student participants in this program will have an opportunity to expand their scientific knowledge by learning through research and hands-on investigations. They will use environmental science equipment to analyze reservation conditions. They will collect and analyze data in the field as well as become exposed to scientific equipment in the lab, such as the projection microscope. Students will learn how to safely conduct environmental and chemistry experiments with the help of trained professionals, as well as travel to nearby Western Carolina University and other universities for a broader exposure. 

Year-round program

Middle school students

Bette Fitzgerald
Project Coordinator
Cherokee Middle School
P.O. Box 134
1582 Ravensford Drive
Cherokee, NC 28719

Phone: 828/554-5026