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Playcard Environmental Education Center

 

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Please note that Playcard now has options for field trips including online and traditional face-to-face field experiences.

Register your class for face to face field trips by visiting our online registration calendar, logging in, and picking either an open day field trip (star), or campout (tipi).  Log in to the system similarly to logging into the portal.

Cost of a face to face day trip is $3 per student no charge chaperones.

Price for overnight camp is $15 per person, extra fees applicable for extra services and food costs. Arrival for day trips is after 9 am.

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Digital Outreach Programs: Playcard offers Google Meets, Zoom Classes, Google Classroom, Forever Wild! Videos, and various other digital outreach programs for the fall semester of 2024 into spring 2025. 

Baby Animal Day: Friday, April 4, 2025.  Open enrollment to pre-k, k, and 1st graders.  Admission is $3 per child no charge for chaperones.  Enrollment is now open.  Enroll today!

In-person events: We are hosting free periodic public outreach days on special events topics such as pollinators, mushrooms, astronomy, birding, fishing, primitive survival, and other useful outdoor skills.  Please like us on Facebook for updated public events!

Our Mission: Playcard is committed to fostering knowledge of the relatedness of plants, animals, soil, water, and human beings through teaching the natural sciences in the special world of a blackwater swamp. Although primarily focused on Horry County, it can provide a model for environmental education centers across the Southeast.

At Playcard Environmental Education Center our goal is to instruct students in the natural sciences on-site, enabling them to experience first-hand the inter-relationships of living things. Teachers receive training which enhances their effectiveness in the classroom by increasing their knowledge and enthusiasm for teaching. The Center also provides a site for observation and study by various scientific disciplines.

In addition to natural science programs, the Education Center provides experiential leadership challenge course opportunities. Playcard facilitates day field trips, overnight camp-outs, special events, and teacher staff development.

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Internship opportunities are available through a partnership between Horry County Schools, Coastal Carolina University, and the Horry County Conservation Foundation.

Please click below if you want to be part of the "Forever Wild" Crew!

Internship

Contact Us

10729 HWY 19 W
 Loris, SC 29569
 
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Phone: (843) 756-1277

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Check out our "Forever Wild!" Series!!

This television show/youtube series is dedicated to the founding father of Playcard Environmental Education Center, Mr. James P. Blanton. It features a history of Playcard and the importance of conservation education for future generations.

'Forever Wild' Crew

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