Scientific journalism about the water and rock formations in the fabulous 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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If you can’t decide between going on a science trip or a language trip, this is the trip for you ! 15 days in the heart of one of most fabulous nature parks on the planet will offer you a scientific journalism project to be completed in English on the theme of water, rocks, pollution and the future of the planet.

Organization of your travel : To ensure that everyone can fly in the same plane with their educators, we recommend you respect the following guidelines. To participate in this stay, you need to get to the Jacksonville airport (South of Yellowstone Park) : please contact the team of the Center Europe that organizes this stay to ensure the right plane schedule. Organization on-site : The trip will take place in bus. The van will simplify the 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 produce). Languages spoken : The stay take place in English. The meetings and interviews, discussions with park rangers, investigations, conferences given by the youth at the end of their stay to other park visitors (tourists from Germany, France, the United States, Japan…), will all take place in English.

Accommodating stops in campgrounds, and numerous hiking expeditions can be organized to support our scientific journalism expedition.
The mandatory visit to the Rangers (forest guards) before each expedition by foot will take place in English.

The Grand Prismatic Hot Spring and its famous thermophilic cyanobacteria

Your mission should you choose to accept it : Conduct in the field a scientific investigation on the topic of water, rocks, pollution and the future of the planet ! Once you arrive on site, you will divide yourselves into several teams of investigators, and you will each select the hottest topic of investigation possible, geothermics oblige. Each team will then have 10 full days, over the course of a 15 day stay, to carry out the investigation and to communicate, in English, at a press conference that will take place in the heart of the park itself. This conference will take place in front of several park employees, and visitors, who may not themselves be Anglophones, so your level of English will be more than sufficient to satisfy everyone. Long live the international !

This stay is part of a plan created by Objective Sciences International to develop the skills of the future professionals that you are in the domain of scientific journalism. A trophy will be awarded each year for the best reporting, 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 running of your team requires that you ask questions from observations of natural phenomena that you observe on trips, and to be able to further extend the concepts involved.
You will record your own personal discoveries through a paper-format trip log that you can bring home as a souvenir, and you will little by little start to recapitulate this information in various formats, culminating in an article, a magazine, a video, radio or another document allowing others to understand the material you are reporting.
The scientific educators, geologists or scientific journalists, will be there to explain the most interesting natural mechanisms or to accompany the teams in a fair manner in conducting their investigations. Your writing and recapitulation skills will be developed day by day via meetings and question periods, which will also take place in English.

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. Hot Springs, boiling swaps and steam vents are there to allow is to question the origin of these phenomena and their effect on ecosystems, biospheres, humans… The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River reveals the geologic history of the region and maybe the reason behind its characteristic yellow colour. Numerous waterfalls, a natural forest and enormous herds of animals are there to accompany us for the entire duration of the expedition.

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