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Soil Tent at 2025 NH Forest Career Field Day
On April 17, the New Hampshire GLOBE Partnership’s Earth Around Us Soil Tent joined other exhibitors at the 2025 New Hampshire Forest Career Field Day. Organized by the New Hampshire Timberland Owners Association (NHTOA), the event educates students in grades 7–12 about careers in forestry, wildlife, and natural resources, conservation and the forest products industry. This year, 750 students attended the event with their educators.
The Earth Around Us Soil Tent is set up alongside a table of
information from the White Mountain National Forest.
Maddy Czymmek, a soil scientist with the USDA White Mountain National Forest, showed off the tent alongside a small soil pit. She took the opportunity to talk with students about her career and explore the soil with them.
Maddy Czymmek shows students a soil sample.
Students got their hands dirty, practiced using an auger, and were interested in how the soil could reveal the agricultural history of the area. Maddy said, “I enjoyed interacting with the students and sharing about my career, which many of them hadn’t heard about before.”
Cheri Birch from NHTOA reported that one student said it was nice to have exhibitors pay attention to his interests and to engage in conversation with him.
Read a news story from NHTOA that summarizes the event.
Earth Around Us Tent Program
The Earth Around Us Tent Program is run by the New Hampshire GLOBE Partnership in collaboration with the USDA Forest Service. The Earth Around Us Tents are a traveling educational lending program consisting of a soil tent and a water tent. This program combines hands-on science activities centered around an Elementary GLOBE storybook and a pop-up tent with immersive murals depicting students’ observations of their local ecosystems. The Earth Around Us Tent Program offers an opportunity for career exploration with scientists, activities aligned with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), data collection, and flexibility to work with a school's timeline, curriculum, and needs.
Earth Around Us Tents are available for New Hampshire schools and community sites free of charge.
The Earth Around Us Tents development was made possible by support from the USDA Forest Service, Eastern Region. Programming is supported through GLOBE Mission Earth.