A stand-out among the summer STEM programs offered by Newton Community Education is a for-credit course in Marine Biology for students entering Grades 9-12. It includes classroom and lab work and four full-day field trips:  Massachusetts Bay aboard a UMass research vessel, inter-tidal ecosystem in Nahant, shorebird ecology at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge and Sandy Point Reservation in Plum Island, and salt-marsh ecology Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Falmouth. The course runs 8:30-11AM, June 29 – July 28 at Newton North HS. Register here.