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Licking County Learning Lab

Love where you live — and learn along the way.

Connect with the local community through this immersive practical learning experience. Open to all Ohio State Newark students, the Licking County Learning Lab (LCLL) will take you to locally celebrated institutions like Dawes Arboretum; Newark Earthworks; and The Works: Ohio Center for History, Art & Technology.

Octagon Earthworks

Wednesday, Oct. 28, from 4–9 p.m.

Exclusive opportunity for students: Join us for a special event at the Newark Earthworks. You'll receive unique access to the community picnic and moonrise celebration:

  • Enjoy local food trucks for free. 
  • Take a guided tour specifically for Ohio State Newark students. 
  • Learn about ancient Indigenous culture and how it influences our world today from Briana Mazzolini-Blanchard, executive director of the Urban Native Collective.

Registration is required by Oct. 14. 

Destinations

Exterior of The Works, a brick two-story building.

The Works: Ohio Center for History, Art & Technology

The Works: Ohio Center for History, Art & Technology is an interactive museum featuring hands-on science labs, an art gallery, local historic artifacts and unique glassblowing demonstrations. In partnership with Ohio State Newark, the SciDome planetarium provides an immersive educational experience. 

Multiple exposure shows the path of the moonrise above the south wall at the Octagon Earthworks in Newark, Ohio.

Newark Earthworks 

The Newark Earthworks is one of many Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks built by American Indians 2,000 years ago and the only UNESCO World Heritage site in Ohio. The earthwork sites were sacred spaces not just for local American Indians but groups of American Indians from all over North America. These earthworks represent creative human achievement and stand as lasting evidence of a culture that shaped the landscape.

Two people walk on a trail lined by trees with golden leaves as the sun shines through.

The Dawes Arboretum

The Dawes Arboretum is a nearly 2,000-acre arboretum featuring forest and ornamental trees, gardens, hiking trails, and natural spaces. Some of the arboretums key attractions include the Japanese Garden, Cypress Swamp, Dawes Lake, Outlook Tower and Daweswood House Museum.

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The Works museum's glassblower holds up a long tube called a blowpipe with molten glass on the end as students watch.
A group of students sit on rows of bleachers inside The Works museum's glass blowing studio in Newark.
A group of students gather in the courtyard eating lunch and socializing at The Works museum in Newark.
Students sit in a darkened room under the domed screen projecting a fiery planet at the SciDome planetarium inside The Works.
A group of students gathers around a model four-person airplane flown by Jerrie Mock, the first woman to pilot and aircraft around the world in 1964, at The Works museum in Newark.
A group of students gathers around a tabletop model of the city of Newark in 1898 at The Works museum in Newark.
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