Scholar's Academy is a K-5 private school in Clayton County

The Teaching Museum South opened in 1992. Picture a 1929 brick school, designed by the famous Atlanta architect, Philip Trammell Shutze. The museum is tucked along a tree-lined street in Hapeville, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia.

Open the door and smell the wooden floors, admire the original globes still hanging from the chandeliers in the auditorium, and listen to the historical American voices of the past as they tell their stories.

Now open the doors to the exhibit rooms and experience a One-Room School House, a Native American habitat or the "secret annex" where Anne Frank and the other seven inhabitants lived for nearly two years. There are a total of fourteen exhibit rooms in the museum. The museum's educational, cultural, naturalistic and artistic programs are a wonderful hands-on experience for students in grades K-12.

The Georgia Green & Healthy Schools (GGHS) program is a new collaborative initiative to assist and support schools in understanding and practicing environmentally sound principles.

The EPD Air Protection Branch is responsible for protecting Georgia's air quality through the regulation of emissions from industrial and mobile sources. The Branch also monitors levels of air pollutants throughout the state.

The Hilton Atlanta Airport Hotel is the headquarter facility for all the 2008 Accept the STEM Challenge Conference activities. The hotel is conveniently located five minutes from the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and just ten minutes from downtown Atlanta. Complimentary shuttle service is available to and from the Atlanta Airport and to Atlanta's MARTA rail service providing public transportation to downtown Atlanta.

Rivers Alive is Georgia's annual volunteer waterway cleanup event that targets all waterways in the State including streams, rivers, lakes, beaches, and wetlands. The mission of Rivers Alive is to create awareness of and involvement in the preservation of Georgia's water resources.

The mission of Linda's Playhouse is to create an environment for families to discover the world by exploring arts, culture, science, and their own imaginations through interactive and educational exhibits.

Fayetteville, Georgia was established on March 28, 1823. The designated property later became the county seat of Fayette County, which was created in 1821. Both Fayetteville and Fayette County are named for Marquis De Lafayette, a French nobleman who aided Washington during the Revolutionary War.

The Neighborhood Charter School opened in Grant Park near Zoo Atlanta in 2002. In February of the 1st year, a fire rendered NCS uninhabitable until reconstruction could be completed 2 and ½ years later. The school carried on its mission of constructivist learning theory and a conservationist theme all during reconstruction. Since returning to the original building our conservation theme has progressed with our pollinator habitat garden located near 2 of our kindergarten class rooms.

City of Atlanta Public Park

City of Atlanta Public Park

Pearl Academy Agriculture & Environmental Center

Art Education programs for children 3 through 12 years that incorporate environmental education and art activities.

Atlanta's ultimate environment for urban meetings and special events.

Georgia State University, founded in 1913, has a mission of excellence in teaching, research and service. Located in the heart of downtown Atlanta, this major research university has an enrollment of more than 27,000 undergraduate and graduate students in six colleges. Georgia State is the second largest university in the state, with students coming from every county in Georgia, every state in the nation and from over 145 countries.

Educationally oriented program that uses mentors as change agents.

Washington High School will host a one time only issue forum and networking event for the Environmental Leadership Program, May 10, 2007.

The mission of the Captain Planet Foundation (CPF) is to fund and support hands-on, environmental education projects for children and young adults. Our objective is to encourage innovative programs that empower youth around the world to work individually and collectively to solve environmental problems in their neighborhoods and communities. Through environmental education’s investigative approach and emphasis on student directed learning.

The organization provides water, wastewater, recycling, and land conservation financing for local governments. In addition, Georgia Environmental Facilitieis Authority (GEFA) provides energy efficiency programs for local governments, other state agencies, and non-profit organizations.

The Westin Peachtree Plaza is located in downtown Atlanta with easy access to I-75/I-85 and Peachtree Road.

Welcome to the Georgia World Congress Center Authority. Located in the heart of downtown Atlanta, the Georgia World Congress Center Authority -- which includes the 71,250-seat Georgia Dome and 21 acre Centennial Olympic Park. The center ranks among the top five largest convention destinations in the country as well as one of the best sports and entertainment campuses in the world.

The Interdenominational Theological Center is a Christian, ecumenical, graduate professional school of theology. Its faculty personifies quality scholarship, rigorous academic discipline, and significant research in the service of the church and other communities in the world.

For more than 25 years, the Georgia World Congress Center has been renowned across the world as a premier convention and meeting facility. Over the past two decades, the center has continued to grow and today is one of the world’s finest convention, sports and entertainment sites. In addition to the 71,250-seat Georgia Dome and 21-acre Centennial Olympic Park, the Georgia World Congress Center encompasses 1.4 million square feet of prime exhibit space in 12 exhibit halls, 106 meeting rooms, 2 grand ballrooms, 3 fixed-seat auditoriums and 3 landscaped plazas.

Lodged in a former filling station across from the Oakland Cemetery, the Standard illuminates simple hipness along Memorial Drive. Appropriately named, all the major staples are covered--good beer on tap, jukebox chocked with tunes and a menu filled with unique sandwiches and small eats. The open space and shift-able tables are opportune mingling spot for groups out on the town. Big modern windows let passersby get a glimpse of inside action while the outdoor patio is clutch during good weather.

Secure, lighted parking is available in AmericasMart® 2 & 3 for about $10 a day.

Get there GREEN! Take MARTA, Atlanta's public rail and bus transportation.

Woodruff Park is one of Downtown Atlanta’s most significant green spaces, at the heart of the city’s financial, entertainment, and academic districts. Lawn and plaza areas, a bandstand, sculpture and fountains combine to make this a flexible open space.

Located two miles east of downtown, Historic Inman Park is Atlanta’s first planned community and one of the nation’s first garden suburbs. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

An arboretum is simply a living tree museum. The typical arboretum is located in a park or garden, where trees can be arranged in themes or by closely related species. But this isn’t a typical arboretum. For one thing, the trees in this arboretum are the trees of Inman Park — shade and ornamental, old and young, exotic and native. For another, people live here. This is their arboretum, which these neighbors helped design and continue to maintain.

Piedmont Park, Atlanta’s “Common Ground” since 1904, is located approximately 2 miles northeast of downtown Atlanta. The park runs along 10th Street (a block west of 10th & Monroe Avenue to a block east of 10th & Piedmont Avenue) and Piedmont Avenue (12th & Piedmont to just before 15th & Piedmont) in midtown Atlanta.

Piedmont Park Conservancy is the nonprofit organization, working with the City of Atlanta for the preservation of historic Piedmont Park. Since 1989, the Conservancy has raised and invested more than $23 million in private funds to transform the once dilapidated Park into the most visited in green space in Atlanta. In addition to raising funds for capital improvements throughout the 185-acre park, the Conservancy manages more than 90 percent of the Park’s daily maintenance care and security.

Imagine It! The Children's Museum of Atlanta is a family-friendly space filled with interactive and educational exhibits for children age eight and under. Their permanent collection consists of bright, creative, hands-on exhibits that are designed to give children an opportunity to learn through play.

Imagine It! also offers parties, memberships and field trip tours. The Museum’s mission is to spark imagination and inspire discovery and learning for all children through the power of play.

2009 exhibits include:
The Amazing Castle (January 24-May 26, 2009),
Exploring Trees Inside and Out (June 13-September 13, 2009),
and Curious George: Let’s Get Curious!™ (October 10, 2009-January 24, 2010)

Admission is $11 plus tax for adults and children ages 2 and above; children under 2 are free.

Located on the west side of Bobby Dodd Stadium, the Student Success Center has four President Suites, two Press Rooms, thirty two sky boxes, The Clary Theatre, and the Festival Level Suite. These spaces have been used for conferences, student group meetings, interviews, receptions, information sessions, general meetings, weddings, and parties.

The Garden showcases native plants of the United States and ferns of the world. In the Spring and Fall we provide workshops - typically information on Georgia native plants either in general or more often a particular set of species. We also have "garden walks" where an invited speaker will go through the Garden describing specific plants in the garden. On most Wednesdays from about 10:00 to 2:00 members of the Georgia Native Plant Society are tending the gardens and will be happy to answer your questions and concerns if you would like to visit.

The Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC) is a partnership uniting the Georgia Institute of Technology with many other educational groups, schools, corporations, and opinion leaders throughout the state of Georgia, toward one common goal: to ensure that K-12 students in Georgia receive the best possible preparation in science, mathematics, and technology as they seek their place in the modern world.

Environmental Education is one component of the Education Enrichment program provided by Georgia PTA (Parent Teacher Association).

Fortson 4-H Center the newest of the five centers operated by the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service that hosts school groups in the Georgia 4-H Environmental Education Program.

Southface promotes sustainable homes, workplaces and communities through education, research, and technical assistance.

The Georgia Science Teachers Association (GSTA) is an incorporated non-profit association of professional science teachers whose primary aims shall be to encourage the development of science interests and abilities as a vital part of the total educational development of the students. The science teacher of today must be at once a dedicated professional educator, aware of the philosophy and function of education and of current practices therein; an enlightened citizen in terms of knowledge, understandings, appreciations, and behavior; and a competent scientist, capable of making science a living force in the lives of children.

The aims of this Association shall be to cooperate with and support organizations and agencies which strive to improve science and science education, to encourage science teachers to participate actively in their local teacher organizations, to provide for administrators understanding and acceptance of the aims and objectives of this organization, to encourage an adequate pre-service and in-service training program for science teachers and to act as a professional clearinghouse for science teaching problems of local and national significance.

This unusual park near Atlanta was created to protect a 100-acre granite monadnock (mountain) often compared to Stone Mountain and Arabia Mountain. Minimally developed, Panola Mountain shelters rare plants of the Piedmont region.