Discover all the secrets of nature and live an astonishing experience of science journalism in the amazing Yellowstone Park !

13-15 years 16-18 years 18-25 years - Feature
Lieu : USA (YellowStone)
Domaines : Environment, Geology, Chemistry, Energy, Ecology, Water, Climatology and Meteorology,
Participants : 20
Encadrants : 4 Sciences Educators

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The Yellowstone Park is one of the most exciting places on earth for anybody eager to better understand the geological activity of our planet and discover a truly intact ecosystem ! During 15 days, you will participate to a great science journalism project with professional science journalists. You will discover all the secrets of nature within the park and the environmental issues which come along while learning how to efficiently communicate it to the people on the street.

Travel organization : please contact our team to arrange all the travel details to Jackson Hole airport (south of Yellowstone Park), the starting place of this wonderful adventure. Organization on-site : The official vehicles of the trip are vans. It will simplify logistics surrounding accommodation, transport and stocking up on the materials needed for the expedition (thermometer, computers, binoculars, cameras, video cameras, …), the personal equipment of each participant (clothes, cameras, …), and food (non-perishable and fresh products). Languages spoken : The science journalism project will be conducted in English (meetings and interviews, discussions with park rangers, investigation as well as the conferences given by the participants during the camp Summer camps camp Les colonies de vacances ne sont plus ce qu’elles étaient, c’est à dire énormes, anonymes et sans activités précises. Heureusement les choses ont changé et les enfants qui ont vécus il y a 20 ans les premiers camps de vacances, qui à l’inverse des colonies de vacances proposaient des stages de qualité au grand air et bourrés d’activités intelligentes, ont grandis et sont devenus eux-mêmes organisateurs de séjours de vacances intelligentes et hors du commun. Ces séjours, vous les trouvez sur ce site... ). The professional science journalists conducting the project are bilingual (English and French), such a trip can be a great way for French speakers to improve their English.

Accommodation will be in tents on Yellowstone campgrounds. Many hiking expeditions will come to support the science journalism project.
At the beginning of the adventure, a necessary visit to the Rangers (forest guards) will be organized. This dialog will be in English.

The Grand Prismatic Hot Spring and its famous thermophilic cyanobacteria

Your mission should you choose to accept it : You and your team will come to discover the true nature of Yellowstone park, understand its environmental issues and communicate it to the people on the street. You’ll learn how to conduct press conferences, realize journalism videos and articles on such issues. This camp Summer camps
camp Les colonies de vacances ne sont plus ce qu’elles étaient, c’est à dire énormes, anonymes et sans activités précises. Heureusement les choses ont changé et les enfants qui ont vécus il y a 20 ans les premiers camps de vacances, qui à l’inverse des colonies de vacances proposaient des stages de qualité au grand air et bourrés d’activités intelligentes, ont grandis et sont devenus eux-mêmes
organisateurs de séjours de vacances intelligentes et hors du commun. Ces
séjours, vous les trouvez sur ce site... is part of a “Objective Sciences International” project to develop professional skills in the domain of science journalism. A reward will be given each year for the best communication, according to criteria that are both linguistic (the English used in the interviews and the article…) and scientific (importance of subject, ability of the journalist to question objectively even with prior opinions, multidisciplinary approach…). The success of your team requires that you discover explanations from the observation of natural phenomena observed during the trip and become able to further extend the concepts and issues involved.

You will write down all of your team discoveries in a notebook and bring these different sets of data together so that you can examine them and draw a conclusion about what they indicate as a whole.
Professional science journalists and geologists will be there to help you discover the most interesting natural mechanisms and develop your writing and communication skills.

Yellowstone Park : Yellowstone Park, located in Wyoming, USA, is protected by the 1872 law that establishes “the preservation of any tree, mineral deposit, natural curiosity or marvel of the park in its natural state”. The first national park in the world, Yellowstone is one of the last large intact ecosystems in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere, where remarkable geological processes and phenomena occur. Yellowstone has the largest concentration of geysers in the world : 10 000 areas of geothermal activity or more than half of the world’s surface geothermal phenomena. You will come to discover the origins of phenomena such as hot springs, boiling swaps and steam vents and understand their effect on ecosystems, biospheres, humans… During our journey, we will be surrounded by waterfalls, natural forests and incredible diversity of animals, plants and wildflowers !

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