global STEM opportunities

We bring individuals from all walks of life together with world-class scientists to work for the good of the planet. Our vision is a world in which we live within our means and in balance with nature.
SCA’s mission is to build the next generation of conservation leaders and inspire lifelong stewardship of the environment and communities by engaging young people in hands-on service to the land.
Inspiring Girls Expeditions leads unique, FREE, wilderness science education programs for high school girls. Each summer a team of 8-9 teenage girls and 3 instructors spend 12 days exploring and learning about glaciers and the alpine landscape or fjord in which the expedition is based. They conduct scientific field studies with our team of professional glaciologists, ecologists, mountain guides, and artists.

local (Pacific NW) STEM opportunities

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Mount Saint Helens Institute is a geology and technology field camp for middle school girls at the Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington State. GeoGirls spend five days conducting hands-on research and interacting with women scientists, educators and older students, learning about volcanoes, natural hazards and scientific monitoring technologies. GeoGirls camp at Mount St. Helens, hike to field sites, work on research projects with scientists and learn how to document and share their scientific findings by building a public webpage. The goal of the program is for GeoGirls participants to emerge with a stronger understanding and connection to Earth systems and feel confident in choosing careers in science, technology, engineering, math or other STEM-related fields. 
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​GirlVentures works to realize its mission by catalyzing girls’ leadership through outdoor adventure, advancing inclusive representation and developing career pipelines in the outdoor and environmental industries, and strengthening transformative action to support inclusive movements for social and environmental justice.
Cascade Mountain School is an outdoor science school located at the base of Mt. Adams in the Columbia River Gorge. At Cascade Mountain School, we offer a dynamic learning environment, one in which senses are enlivened and academics become relevant to daily life. We cultivate our ability to study nature and the world around us holistically, in all its complexity, through a "systems thinking" lens. Cascade Mountain School's programs are grounded in ecological and community values, using the human and ecological communities of Trout Lake, Washington, the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Mt. Adams Wilderness, Yakama Nation, and the Columbia River Gorge for exploration. Students and staff explore the interconnected dimensions of the Gorge--wilderness, agriculture, natural resource, industry, transportation, energy, and native communities--through hands-on science, research, backpacking, tinkering, mindfulness practices, and more. High school and college science credit is available for select programs. Environmental stewardship and exciting adventures are incorporated into our programs for participants ages 6-18.
Wildlands Studies is inspired by wildlife and wildlands.  We believe connecting to their beauty satisfies a basic human need that is important to our hearts as well as our heritage.  And we believe in the transformative effect they have on people.
GALS is a free summer science program for high school students to engage with science while backpacking through the wilderness. GALS was created to increase hands-on science opportunities for students who identify as female or gender nonconforming, students of color, students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, and other groups underrepresented in fields of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math).
"Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your calling."  Aristotle

global travel and volunteer opportunities​

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