Each year, Carleton University, the University of Ottawa, La Cité Collégiale and St. Paul University offer a week-long enriched learning experience to bright and highly motivated high school students in grades 8-11 (Ontario) and Sec. 2-5 (Québec). More than 3,000 students participate in this program annually, and Carleton hosts about 1000 students.
About fifty mini-courses are offered by Carleton University to grade 8 – 11 students. These students are coming from the school boards of eastern Ontario and western Quebec. The MacOdrum Library mini-course was called “Location is Everything” and Geocaching is the session that was collaboratively taught on the sunny afternoon of Wednesday, May 6th, 2015.
Susan Tudin Library Subject Specialist, Vanessa Lawrence Reference Librarian, and Nika Linseman Programs Support Officer from the MacOdrum Library and Department of Geography and Environmental Studies; introduced EMCP students to geocaching while taking them on a tour of the Carleton University campus.
Students were shown how to use the GPS units and received an introduction to places on campus including the tunnels, beautiful outdoor campus areas, the Loeb building, stream gauging station, and the athletics building.
Students were also shown the newly renovated labs in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies and learned about the numerous different courses that they could take in the department.
A beautiful day for young, bright, inquisitive students to have fun geocaching and learn about the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies and more generally Carleton University.