The Center Celebrates World Oceans Day
The Center joined Adventure Aquarium in promoting healthy oceans with crafts, educational tables and voting for a favorite beach. Aquarium guests, and even some animals, had the opportunity to tell us why they think oceans are awesome.
Center for Aquatic Sciences receives the Chancellor’s Award for Civic Engagement from Rutgers University-Camden
The Center strives to be a responsible member of the community and is honored to have been recognized for our work associated with civic engagement initiatives.
CAUSE Fuels Passion for Research
CAUSE had the chance to travel to Washington, D.C. for a national conference about after-school, before-school and summer learning programs. We had the opportunity to meet with members of Congress to share the ways these programs help teach our generation about science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. (Learn more)
Aquatic Academy Keeps Kids in the Flow
The CAUSE program’s Interns have a 100 percent high school graduation rate, and over the past nine years 100 percent enrolled in college. The Center has mentored more than 150 high schoolers and served more than 40,000 youth through its summer camps and other outreach programs. (Learn more)
CAUSE visits Capitol Hill to support afterschool programs
Youth representatives from CAUSE met with members of Congress to advocate for afterschool programs as part of the Afterschool Alliance’s Afterschool for All Challenge. Participants were sent to Capitol Hill to advocate as part of the 21st Century Learning Centers initiative. (Learn more)
Camden youth participate in Youth Summit in Washington, D.C.
The Center for Aquatic Sciences is proud to announce that five students from its Community and Urban Science Enrichment, CAUSE, program traveled to Washington D.C. to participate in the 4th Coastal America Partnership Student Summit on the Oceans and Coast. (Learn more)
Adventure Aquarium and Center for Aquatic Sciences designated the region’s first Coastal America Coastal Ecosystem Learning Center
The Adventure Aquarium and the Center for Aquatic Sciences join 23 other marine facilities in becoming part of the growing network of Coastal America Coastal Ecosystem Learning Centers. (Learn more)
Outreach visits the Bellmawr Branch of the Camden County Library
Guest speakers from the Center for Aquatic Sciences presented “Investigating Invertebrates” at the Bellmawr Branch of the Camden County Library. The children who attended the program were able to get up close and personal with Madagascar hissing cockroaches, Starfish, Horseshoe crabs, a Chilean rose tarantula and a Diamondback terrapin. (Learn more)
