Your Monthly News & Updates
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Our Mission
To ignite the natural curiosity of all learners to explore and shape their world
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SUMMER ADVENTURE
Don’t forget to visit us at Summer Adventure! Open now until July 29th you can visit Roper Mountain Tuesday-Saturday between 10AM-4PM. While you’re here you can encounter our traveling exhibit “How People Make Things”, visit the outdoor dinosaur trails including the two new play areas, discover our Living History Farm, pet a stingray in the Marine Lab, and so much more!
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FRIDAY STARRY NIGHTS
July 7th & 14th
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Friday Starry Nights
Take Flight
July 7th & 14th
4:30 p.m.
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Friday Starry Nights
Invaders of Mars!
July 7th & 14th
6 p.m.
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Friday Starry Nights
Solar Superstorms
July 7th & 14th
7:30 p.m.
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July 20th - 29th
Thursday - Saturday
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Join us in July for two weeks of laser lights set to your favorite bands! We have everything from Taylor Swift to Queen to Stranger Things. Want more Laser Shows?! Join us July 7th and 14th for a 9PM show after Starry Nights. More information about times and show offerings can be found at our website here:
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SUMMER ADVENTURE
Nature Exchange Trader Event!
Extended until July 29th
Help us RECYCLE and REUSE! Bring in your empty, clean 2-liter bottle with cap and trade it in for 200 points at the Nature Exchange.
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Girl Scout Event
Girl Scouts joined us on June 17th for the Eyes to the Sky event where they earned their Space badge! Attendees participated in a sky talk, viewed a planetarium show, and observed the sun through our telescope.
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Have you checked out our new traveling exhibit in the Environmental Science building? From now until July 29th, as a part of Summer Adventure, come and experience the very nostalgic and hands-on exhibit called "How People Make Things". The exhibit is inspired by Mr. Rogers factory tours. Throughout the exhibit, you will learn how things are Cut, Molded, and Assembled with a variety of hands-on activities. As you are walking through, you will also be able to watch old Mr. Rogers factory tour episodes.
Some of the hands-on exhibits that you will be be able to participate in is cutting out your own dinosaur shapes out of construction paper using a die-cut machine, seeing a real plastic injection molder at work, and deforming a penny into a flat, bumpy version of itself. As an extension of the "How People Make Things" exhibit is a maker space area, sponsored by Ryobi, where visitors can participate in a variety of hands-on crafts that will keep your little ones engaged!
We hope that you will come visit many times now through July 29th to experience everything that the traveling exhibit has to offer and more!
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Did you know the common birds at Roper Mountain? One of of my favorite naturalist jobs is sharing my love of birding and teaching others our common birds here. We have around 450 bird species in South Carolina, but these are the birds we see or hear most frequently on the grounds here at Roper Mountain: Carolina Wren, Mourning Dove, Brown Thrasher, Tufted Titmouse, American Goldfinch, Blue Jay, Eastern Towhee, Pine Warbler, Brown-Headed Nuthatch, Mockingbird, Carolina Chickadee, American Robin, House Finch, Northern Cardinal, Eastern Bluebird, and the Red-bellied Woodpecker.
Why are these birds common? The range or boundary of all these birds includes our Southeastern US area. These birds are year-round or resident birds and all breed here. They all find an abundance of food and nesting sites here also. Our varied habitats of pine - hardwood forest, fields and gardens and brushy areas provide their habitat needs.
Cardinals, blue jays, and woodpeckers are frequently spotted in our forest trees, while the Eastern towhee and brown thrasher are spotted often on our forest floor searching for food. Up in our pine trees, look for brown-headed nuthatches, pine warblers, and the Carolina chickadees feeding on seeds of the pine cones and insects in the pine bark. In our open wooded areas, fields and gardens, mourning doves, bluebirds, and robins fly about. Most birds, including our Carolina Wren, can be seen at the edge or ecotone between these different habitats.
On your next visit to Roper Mountain, see how many of these common birds you can spot and start your own birding checklist!
By Tim Taylor, Roper Mountain Life Science Specialist
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Membership Updates
Members now receive 10% off all t-shirt and hat purchases. Mention that you are a member to receive your discount.
PLUS earn an additional 25 points each time you wear your t-shirt to Nature Exchange!
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Buy a Brick
Leave your legacy at Roper Mountain. Purchase a personalized brick that will go along the front entrance path to the Environmental Science Building, and have your name on the mountain for years to come!
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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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Spread The Word About Roper Mountain
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THANK YOU COMMUNITY PARTNERS
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Visionary:
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 Corporation
MetroConnects
Piedmont Arthritis Clinic, PA
ReWa
South Carolina Farm Bureau
Explorer:
BMW Manufacturing
Fluor Foundation
GE
SEW Eurodrive
Voyager:
Tom and Linda Hamilton
South Carolina Charities
Miliken
Audacy
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Adventurer:
AFL Global
AT&T Foundation
Bank of Travelers Rest
Contec, Inc.
ScanSource Charitable Foundation
Hal and Minor Shaw
Innovator:
John R. and M. Margrite Davis Foundation
DC Blox
Greenville FCU
Greenville Master Gardeners
Rob and Katie Howell
Piedmont Natural Gas
Publix Super Market Charities
Ron and Tommie Reece
Barbara Stone Foundation
ZF North America
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We welcome your feedback. Email Roper Mountain to share your thoughts.
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