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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 Friday, January 6, 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, January 19th things are getting icy, join us for a Frozen afternoon.
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Friday Starry Nights
Magic Tree House:
Space Mission
January 6, 13, 20 and 27
4:30 p.m.
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Friday Starry Nights
The Little Star
That Could
January 6, 13, 20 and 27
6 p.m.
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Friday Starry Nights
Eclipse:
The Sun Revealed
January 6, 13, 20 and 27
7:30 p.m.
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Summer 2023 Camp Registration
Members Only Online Registration begins Tuesday, March 7, 7:00am
Public Online Registration begins Thursday, March 9, 8:00am
Want 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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Science PLUS Institute applications for the 2023 Summer Institute are now available! Applications are open to any 1st-12th grade public school science teacher in South Carolina. For more information please visit our website: Science PLUS Institute. |
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Take a walk back in time and visit our new prehistoric playground! This play area allows visitors to climb and explore different fossils including a skull, ribs, and more! The playground can be found near the start of the Dinosaur trail, next to the treehouse. |
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Roper Mountain has partnered with Audubon who has installed a Motus tower near the Conference Center. When a bird passes by our receiving station, the computer records its radio ID and sends that data to the Motus database housed at Birds Canada’s National Data Centre in Ontario. There are antennas all around the world and the information collected is available to both the public and researchers. We’re thrilled to be able to partner with Audubon and be part of this important research.
More information about the Motus tower can be found here. |
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That the Virginia Pine (Pinus virginiana) is our most common pine tree growing on Roper Mountain? Being an evergreen, it stands out now in the winter among our deciduous trees. It is more common near the bottom of the mountain, where much of the land in the early Twentieth Century was used for farming. Pines are known as pioneer species, being one of the first trees to grow from abandoned farm land. Like most pines, this tree is intolerant of shade and younger pines are being out competed by our oaks, hickories and sweetgums with bigger leaves to capture the sunlight in the shade.
Virginia pines are also called scrub pines, due to their scraggly appearance. Despite their scrubby appearance, some of our big Virginia pine trees have become our canopy trees, reaching up to 60 feet tall. The needle-like leaves of Virginia pine are twisted, about 2 inches in length and grow in bundles or fascicles of two. The 2 needles look like the letter V and help to identify it. The small cones remain attached when open and have winged seeds that drop in the fall.
During our Afternoon Explorations, as you make your way through our pine forest, look up for the brown-headed nuthatches, pine warblers, and Carolina chickadees that have a fondness for pinecone seeds. Down on the ground, look for squirrel eaten pinecones.
By Tim Taylor, Roper Mountain Life Science Specialist
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This month’s donor spotlight is Lockheed Martin, who has generously supported our Science on Wheels program for the past three years. Lockheed’s support has made it possible for thousands of students from Title I schools in Greenville County and beyond to be able to experience some of the amazing outreach programs provided by Roper Mountain. Here, students from Cherrydale Elementary prepare to visit our portable StarLab planetarium for another Science on Wheels adventure!
Thank you, Lockheed Martin, for helping us to ignite 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
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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