CPES Projects
![three students monitor water quality in a stream in the woods.](https://ie.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1337/2023/10/geo-health4.jpg)
Geoscience and Environmental Health Internships
This high school student science enrichment program is a partnership between the UNC-Chapel Hill Institute for the Environment, UNC-Pembroke, and Robeson Early College High School. This program is free for students; financial support is provided by Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
![Five teens on a boat](https://ie.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1337/2023/10/cpes_geo2023_ontheboat-1024x535.jpg)
GEO Explorers
A one-week geoscience-focused summer institute during which middle and high school youth explore the hydrology of Eastern North Carolina from local river basins to the ocean, learning about climate impacts and solutions in their local community and investigating geoscience careers along the way.
![students building wind turbine](https://ie.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1337/2023/07/wind_turbine_03_Lars-Sahl.jpg)
Energy Literacy, Engagement and Action Program (LEAP)
During this free science enrichment program, high school students conduct hands-on and minds-on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) activities to examine society’s current use of energy and the technological solutions that will support a low-carbon future.
![Students meeting for EcoStudio class](https://ie.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1337/2023/09/ecostudio_spring_2022_main_desk_med.jpg)
EcoStudio
The Center for Public Engagement with Science co-coordinates local environmentally focused internships through EcoStudio, a relatively new collaboration between the UNC Institute for the Environment and the UNC Environment, Ecology and Energy Program (E3P). EcoStudio offers applied learning experiences to UNC undergraduate students year-round.
![two women talking at science expo](https://ie.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1337/2023/10/ERP_2015-science-expo.jpeg)
Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility
The UNC CEHS Community Engagement Core (CEC) connects researchers with public health professionals, stakeholder agencies and public audiences throughout NC, and fosters dialogue among Center researchers and stakeholders about research needs.
![a group of people searching for insects in the forest](https://ie.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1337/2023/10/IMG_20190503_140936545-1024x768.jpg)
Caterpillars Count!
Citizen scientists, including middle and high school youth, who participate in Caterpillars Count! conduct surveys on trees and shrubs to aid in measuring the seasonal variation and abundance of arthropods like caterpillars and beetles.
![Professor and student in lab](https://ie.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1337/2023/07/alicia-and-student-1024x683.jpeg)
21st Century Environmental Health Scholars
21EH Scholars is a year-round program that provides environmental health science research internships for undergraduate students at North Carolina Central University (NCCU) and UNC-Chapel Hill.