SPC STEM Center nurtures ecosystem

Have you ever heard of a living shoreline? How about a hurricane hole? If you know, then you may be surprised to know that the SPC STEM Center has both!
Have you ever heard of a living shoreline? How about a hurricane hole? If you know, then you may be surprised to know that the SPC STEM Center has both!
February is CTE Month, and St. Petersburg College would like to share some of our graduates’ stories with you.
SPC recently won a grant to fund a paid STEM-based internship opportunity for an SPC student to help monitor the threatened gopher tortoises recently released at the STEM Center.
Four new tortoises, which were rescued and rehabilitated, were released in the past week into the upland habitat area at SPC’s STEM Center.
On Saturday, Aug. 4, SPC SCUBA club members, along with some friends, met at Indian Shores Beach for a morning of beach cleanup.
SPC’s Bay Pines STEM Center and Dr. Erin Goergen are part of a statewide effort – through work with students, surveys and cleanups – to reduce the impact of marine debris on wildlife habitats.
In collaboration with SPC’s Tampa Bay SEEDs Scholarship Program, the Bay Pines STEM Center is hosting the STEM by the Bay Conference, Workshops, and Service events this January 12, 13, and 15. This free event is open to all SPC students. Registration for this event can be for a single day, or for all three days.
SPC is happy to announce a collaboration with Culturing Solutions to provide a space for an outside laboratory to demonstrate Hybrid Algae Production technology.
Once each semester students, staff, and faculty from SPC Downtown team up with employees of the energy company to participate in the flash mob cleanup.
Attendees came to learn about the latest technology at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Florida Muddy Water Blues Technology Transfer Workshop.