Something Very Fishy Online

Lionfish! Barracuda! Bull sharks! Oh my! So much to see in our virtual scavenger hunt 360 virtual reality experience the Children’s Museum of the Upstate’s Back to School bash. Over 100 children, parents and grandparents enjoyed this fun marine animal scavenger hunt and a chance to go on a virtual dive experience on the reefs of the Florida Keys. A big THANK YOU to Jerry Gaillard of PowerUpEDU for bringing us a big screen TV and helping us set our our new Class VR system. If you are teacher, and would like to have a similar in class VR experience, check out our Citizen Science VR program below. Pictures and videos shared with permission.

Have you ever wanted to be a scientist studying coral reef fishes? Here is your chance! Marine biologist Randi Sims will come to your classroom with our Class VR virtual reality headsets to instruct your class how to conduct a virtual experiment. This incredible underwater experience takes you to the coral reefs of the Florida Keys to observe colorful and feisty reef fishes while sitting at your desk. This amazing and fun in-class active learning program is free to the first twenty classes that sign up (grades 3-5) thanks to a generous grant from SC Sea Grant Consortium. Click on this link to register your class or e-mail Randi directly at rsims@clemson.edu for more information. Program dates are October 2021 to February 2022.

Want to help spread the news about saving our oceans? Join our virtual choir! Our musical director Kathy Prosser is taking volunteers to participate in a video production of our finale song “One Little Drop”. This unique and wonderful opportunity is free to the first 100 children (ages 5-15) that sign up thanks to a generous grant from the Puffin Foundation. Click on this link to register a child to participate or e-mail Kathy directly at info@educationalentertainment.org. Program dates are October to December 2021.

Happy Anniversary! This is our sixth SVF Online Newsletter which we have been sharing for almost a year now. And what it year it has been. We would appreciate you filling out this 3 min survey of what you like about our online newsletter and what you would like to see more of in the coming year. As always thank you for your time and support of our Something Very Fishy marine science program. Click on the button below - we love to hear your suggestions.

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