Photo story: Training future seafood farmers
For more than 20 years, Washington Sea Grant’s NOAA Science Camp has offered hands-on science-learning opportunities for middle and high school students. This year NOAA Science Camp looked a little different: find out more about this year’s aquaculture spin with the following photo story.
Read moreTacoma SOTA Wins the 2025 Orca Bowl Competition
By Luciana Calle, WSG Science Communications Fellow
On March 1, Washington Sea Grant (WSG) held the 2025 Orca Bowl Competition, Washington state’s regional National Ocean Sciences Bowl® (NOSB) event. This day-long event brings high school students from across Washington to compete in teams of four through a round-robin competition style followed by a double elimination round.
Twenty years of NOAA Science Camp
NOAA Science Camp has brought a breadth of marine programming to middle and high school students since 2003
From the Winter 2023/2024 Sea Star
By Samantha Larson, WSG Science Writer
Minutes away from Seattle’s Space Needle and skyscrapers, a pocket beach along the waterfront hosts an abundance of marine life.
Summertime on the Salish Sea
A WSG fellow connects with the Puget Sound community over marine conservation at a low tide event hosted by NOAA Science Camp
By Katalin Plummer, WSG Science Communications Fellow
Summertime in the Seattle area is nothing like the eastern Oregon summers of my childhood.
“What We Love To Do”: NOAA Science Camp Creatively Immerses Kids in Marine Science
In the third consecutive summer of pandemic-related closures, NOAA Science Camp brought new programming to the beach during an extreme low tide
By Ashli Blow, WSG Science Communications Specialist
When Puget Sound receded during an extreme low tide in June, Maile Sullivan, Washington Sea Grant education specialist, and a team from NOAA Science Camp and the Seattle Aquarium put on their boots and headed for the shores of Golden Gardens Park in Seattle.
Tesla STEM students win statewide Orca Bowl competition
The “junior olympics of marine science” in the Northwest
On March 26, 2022, 12 teams from across Washington state met in the University of Washington Fisheries Sciences Building to compete in the twenty-fifth rendition of the beloved Orca Bowl competition.