MATES Outreach & Summer Experience
MATES offers Winter Outreach Programs through our Project Terrapin initiative with STEM topics including Environmental Science, Robotics and Wildlife Conservation. We also have been offering our STEM Summer Experience Program since 1997.
Summer Experience 2026 is filled!
Please email jwnek@ocvts.org with any questions
Winter Outreach
Winter Outreach is designated for middle school and MATES Class of 2030 students! Please see the flyer from 2026. We will have the 2027 flyer soon!
STEM Summer Experience
Our Summer Experience was open to incoming MATES freshmen as part of the Class 2029!
The 2026 STEM program is hands-on with daily field experiences.
Please see our 2026 guide!
The 2025 program was a huge success thanks to the instructors, assistants, and participants who experienced field events each day! Our partners provided invaluable support to give us field opportunities. See the article that includes the 2022 STEM Summer Experience
Week 1 focuses on Barnegat Bay including hands on topics specific to Climate Change and effects on our local natural resources.
Week 3 is our "turtle" day with activities focused on our Project Terrapin conservation initiatives. "It will turtley the best turtle day ever"!
Our STEM Summer Experience is a hands-on way to experience the local environment. Our slogan, "Barnegat Bay is our classroom" is emphasized throughout the one week (four days) of the program. We are in the field daily visiting local parks, beaches and on local waterways.
Week 2 focuses on a Marine Science that includes a hands-on, problem-solving activity coordinated by our talented MATES engineers.
Our Outreach Programs run two or three Mondays each month of January, February and March from 4:30 - 6 PM January and March at MATES, 195 Cedar Bridge Road, Manahawkin, NJ 08050.
The following 2026 summer dates:
July 20 - 23 (MATES Research Week)
July 27 - 30 (STEM Field Experience)
Aug 3 - 6 (STEM Field Experience)
Please see our 2026 brochure!
