Peterson Middle School has a two-acre on-site Nature Center, which serves as a rich educational resource for all students in its district. The Nature Center was developed by two science teachers to enhance science education during a period of educational budget cuts. The Nature Center has been influential in teaching students about nature and environmental science through field trips and a highly interactive website. Over the past five years, SCU engineering students have worked on over 10 projects that have enhanced the educational resources available on the Nature Center website.
This project involved the design and construction of a birdhouse with a webcam to provide a constant video feed of bird wildlife...
This project involved the consolidation of data and information from several webpages into a more organized form accessible from a single web page...
Students used the structure from a previously built birdhouse, and attached a new roof with a camera inside...