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Our Mission
To ignite the natural curiosity of all learners to explore and shape their world
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Continue your children’s learning adventures in some of your favorite spaces at Roper Mountain! |
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- Explore the Environmental Science and Sustainability Building which is home to the highly popular Nature Exchange, Our Water Story, and the Sustainable Future exhibits.
- Search for life-size models of both young and adult dinosaurs along our outdoor Dinosaur Adventure Trail.
- Enjoy a stroll through our beautiful Butterfly Garden.
- Engage in creative outdoor play in Wildwood.
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Afternoon Explorations
First Friday
On February 3rd, Harrison Hall of Natural Science will be open in addition to the regular access points of Afternoon Explorations to allow you to mix and mingle with your favorite animals!
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Afternoon Explorations
Third Thursday
On Thursday, February 16th we’ll discover why we all love STEM with our Third Thursday event-For the love of STEM!
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Friday Starry Nights
Big Bird’s Adventure: One world, One Sky
February 6, 13, 20 and 27
4:30 p.m.
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Friday Starry Nights
The Little Star
That Could
February 6, 13, 20 and 27
6 p.m.
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Friday Starry Nights
Eclipse:
The Sun Revealed
February 6, 13, 20 and 27
7:30 p.m.
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Summer 2023 Camp Registration
Our 2023 Summer Explorations Camp Guide is now available on our website! Click here to see all the great camps we’re offering this year.
Members Only Online Registration begins Tuesday, March 7, 7:00am
Public Online Registration begins Thursday, March 9, 8:00am
Would you like to guarantee the camps you want? Upgrade your membership to the CREATOR or ORIGINATOR level for access to our special Concierge ONSITE member registration days on Wednesday, March 1 and Thursday, March 2.
To upgrade your membership, log-in to your membership at RoperMountain.org and renew at either the Creator or Originator level (found under Supporting Memberships). Creator and Originator memberships are good for one year of Concierge camp registration.
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You’re invited! Come celebrate Pi Day (on Pi Day) with your friends at Roper Mountain Science Center!
Join us for an evening of fun, hands-on STEM demonstrations, drinks, hors d’oeuvres, and pie (of course!) at our first annual Pi Day Party, hosted by the Roper Mountain Science Center Association. The party will be held on Tuesday, March 14th from 6-8pm at our Environmental Science Building and is open to all adults 21+. Tickets include all activities, food, drink and are $50 per individual. Learn more and register here today - it's as "easy as pie"! |
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A new year has arrived and with it the Harrison Hall of Science has a new room design with new animals on exhibit! The mineral lab was transformed into The Island! This amazing classroom includes an interactive display that shows a volcano erupting and island formation, a game where birds compete for food and students can determine what types of bird beaks are more successful, an activity where students explore how sea turtles use magnetism to find beaches to nest on, and underwater student controlled ROVs in search of new ocean animals and features like hydrothermal vents. |
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A fan favorite in our new classroom has been the addition of our two new tropical island animals, the endangered Forsten's tortoises and the New Caledonian Giant Gecko.
Students get up close and personal with each of these animals as they learn the vital role each of these animals play in their home habitats. Gecko’s have one of the strongest holds of any animal. Each of the gecko’s feet can hold 20 times their body weight! These geckos are also thought to play a role in pollinating flowers that grow along the canopy of the rainforest that hosts these fascinating animals.
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For over two years, Hooked Meat & Seafood in north Greenville has generously been donating assorted seafood each week to help feed some of our animals. From clams, mussels, oysters, scallops, shrimp, and assorted cuts of fish, our animals have been spoiled with all the tasty options.
Providing a varied diet is essential for healthy animals, and we couldn’t do it without them!
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Did you know that we have a display in our Sustainable Future Exhibit area that shows some of our state animals that are threatened, endangered and some that have gone extinct? A species is threatened when the population is quite low and listed as endangered when its numbers are so low that it is in danger of becoming extinct. A species that is extinct, is gone forever sadly. Some characteristics that make them more vulnerable to extinction are: an extremely small range; a loss of habitat or a low reproductive success. Endangered species are protected under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 and the list of protected species classified as endangered or threatened is always changing to reflect the most current scientific information.
As a result of conservation efforts, the Bald Eagle and American Alligator are just some of the animals that have made a comeback and have been removed from the endangered species list, but still protected. The American alligator is now listed as threatened, just due to their similarity of appearance to the American crocodile. Just recently, the Ivory-billed woodpecker was thought to be extinct from the U.S., but now audio recordings from a swamp in Louisiana may prove otherwise? Let’s hope!
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The Carolina parakeet is an extinct species of a parrot that once lived in old-growth forests of South Carolina, like the Ivory-billed woodpecker. Today, you are reminded in our mountains of this now extinct bird when you visit the Eastatoe Valley. The word “eastatoe” is apparently synonymous with the Carolina Parakeet, meaning “valley of the green bird”.
Find out about other threatened, endangered and extinct species in SC by turning the panels on our display in Sustainable Future as you come visit during our Afternoon Explorations!
By: Tim Taylor, Life Science Specialist
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This month’s donor spotlight is General Electric, a long-time Community Partner. Because of their support, we are able to provide unique hands-on, standards-based learning labs for students from 24 counties and 46 school districts in South Carolina each year. Here, 6th grade students from Tanglewood Middle School are learning to explore energy transformations and conservation of energy by designing their own wind power generator. Thank you GE, for helping us to inspire the natural curiosity of all learners to explore and shape their world.
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Give Back to Roper Mountain
We appreciate your consideration in making a donation to support our mission to help lay the foundation for future successes for school and public programming. Make a gift to Roper Mountain today.
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AmazonSmile
You can support Roper Mountain in the Amazon Shopping app on iOS and Android mobile phones by turning AmazonSmile on through your settings and completing onscreen instructions to select us as your non-profit to support.
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Spread The Word About Roper Mountain
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THANK YOU COMMUNITY PARTNERS |
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Visionary:
BMW Manufacturing
Bosch Community Fund
Community Foundation of Greenville
The Daniel-Mickel Foundation
Dodge Industrial, Inc.
Duke Energy Foundation
Fluor Golf For Greenville
Greater Greenville Sanitation Commission
Greenville County Litter Prevention
Greenville Water
The Late Ernest and Betty Lathem
Lockheed Martin
MetroConnects
Piedmont Arthritis Clinic, PA
ReWa
South Carolina Farm Bureau
Explorer:
Fluor Foundation
GE
South Carolina Charities
W.K. Dickson
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Voyager:
Tom and Linda Hamilton
The Darrell Harrison Family
Brad Wyche and Diane Smock
Adventurer:
AT&T Foundation
AFL Global
Bank of Travelers Rest
ScanSource Charitable Foundation
Hal and Minor Shaw
Innovator:
Rob and Katie Howell
John R. and M. Margrite Davis Foundation
Les and Kay Knight
Piedmont Natural Gas
Scott and Pam Powell
Ron and Tommie Reece
Publix Super Market Charities
Barbara Stone Foundation
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