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March 28, 2026 at Central Pennsylvania Institute of Science and Technology, Pleasant Gap, PA (same location as recent years). Thank you to all the volunteers, donors and attendees who make each year's event run very smoothly. Download and print a Junior Ed Day PDF flyer. OR the same at 2 flyers per page. Please post & distribute to friends and social media. Also see our weekly meetings for kids. |
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Registration for the 2026 event is now OPEN. Please register by March 24. Scroll down to 'REGISTER HERE' Our annual Minerals Junior Education Day is fun and rewarding for students in grades 1-8 and their parents. They will learn about minerals, crystals, gems, fossils, and earth science. At this event, kids get an empty egg carton when they check in, then go to a series of stations; these are tentatively planned for the 2026 event: - Gold panning by GPAA, - Caves & Karst by Lincoln Caverns, - Invertebrate fossils (shells), - Vertebrate fossils (bones & teeth), - Lapidary - cutting gemstones, - Native Americans used Rocks, - Ultraviolet fluorescence (glow in the dark), - Iron Ore and Iron Furnaces, - Gemstones, - Minerals make Rocks. Students learn about the topic from a fun demonstration, activity or discussion, and receive a properly labeled specimen related to the topic, so they gather a whole collection in their egg carton. There is also a sales table with child-friendly prices (plus a few higher) - please bring cash! Everyone goes through at their own pace and goes to the stations in the order they choose. Allow at least an hour and a half or two hours in total. Registration is limited so that we may be sure of having enough specimens for all of the students. We have a $6 charge per child to cover our expenses; we will announce registration procedures soon. Parents come along for free, and help keep things under control, but don't get the specimens. Same location as recent years: www.cpi.edu - see our driving directions or CPI's Google Maps link. Central Pennsylvania Institute of Science and Technology (CPI Vo-Tech) 540 North Harrison Road, Pleasant Gap, PA 16823 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN PLEASE REGISTER IN ADVANCE, by MARCH 24 REGISTER HERE: We ask you to choose an approximate starting time so that we can spread the crowd out through the day (you don't need to be exactly on time). Using PayPal to REGISTER AND PAY NOW is the BEST WAY. Choose the starting time slot from the drop-down menu below, and add any names we should use - family name, or first and last name(s) of children separated by spaces (don't hit enter within that text box). Then choose 'Add to Cart' and then when you're in the PayPal cart, edit the number ("quantity") of children at $6.00 each to get the correct total cost, and pay via PayPal. Parents come along for free. Your payment goes to treasurer@nittanymineral.org and the charge will appear on your credit card statement as "PAYPAL *NITTANYMINE". Problems? Send an e-mail to nittanymineral.org@gmail.com. The following articles are from past events. Video recording by James Sicree.  A crystal structure station at the 2008 event. Photo by R. Altamura.
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