Community Service
The Goodnight Scholarships office provides opportunities to serve the NC State, Triangle, and global communities, in an effort to live out our mantra “Pay it forward”.
Lego Brick Build
Our annual student-led STEM outreach event with local Boys and Girls Club chapters, the LEGO Brick Build shows the wonders of STEM using thousands of LEGOs!
Lego Brick Build
Prairie Ridge Ecostation
Prairie Ridge Ecostation consists of about 45 acres of land that has transitioned from grassy fields to WWI training grounds to prison farm to NC State University cow pasture. NCMNS acquired the property in the late 1990s, and constructed a wet laboratory for Museum researchers on the site. Mary Ann Brittain saw the potential of the remainder of the land as a space for outdoor education, and in 2004, Prairie Ridge Ecostation was born
Prairie Ridge Ecostation
Service through travel
Some of the Goodnight travel opportunities have an emphasis on service as a part of the experience. Whether it be working at an urban farm in Denver, CO, doing STEM education across the state of North Carolina, or helping with hurricane relief in the Puerto Rico
Spring Break Environmental Conservation and Outreach (ECO): Puerto Rico