Mission - Empowering our communities to explore science and the natural world.
Vision - To mobilize our communities by bridging the gap between the opportunities of today and the possibilities of tomorrow.
Home Gardening by amy.pruitt@rss.k12.nc.us
Spanish Copy of Home Gardening by amy.pruitt@rss.k12.nc.us
2020 Summer Camps/Events at Horizons and Beyond!
Our Public Opening events are cancelled, but we are still making plans for summer camps.
Stay safe and we will keep you posted!
50+ Years of #HU4YOU
Horizons Unlimited has served the citizens of Salisbury and Rowan County for over 50 years with educational programing for all ages. Our family friendly public events provide a space where exploration, creativity and innovation are fostered.
During the year, services include K-12 academic school programming, support to community groups seeking educational entertainment and summer camps focused on our mission of exploring science and the natural world.
The staff of Horizons Unlimited looks forward to serving your education and entertainment needs in the upcoming year. For more information or to join our Friends of Horizons email listing, call 704-639-3004.
Take a moment to browse our K-12 services in the 2019-2020 RSS Experience Guide below.
Our 30-foot dome ceiling, theater seating for 72, and original star projector continue to amaze audiences of all ages and backgrounds. We have recently added a homemade mirror-dome like system that allows us to present multiple formats and amaze audiences in a whole new immersive environment!
The exhibit showcases a wide variety of North Carolina Indian tools, baskets and weaponry. Also included is part of the Peter Cooper collection of arrowheads, spear points and other remnants of area tribes.
Experience a two-story, moist, tropical environment with colorful vegetation such as banana trees, palms, ferns and orchids. Discover a wide variety of aquatic life forms, such as zooplankton, aquatic insects, mollusks, crustaceans and freshwater fish species
This is a 19th century one-room log schoolhouse originally used in southern Rowan County. It is furnished to show a typical school of that time period. Visitors recreate a school day by studying reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Hike along nature trails and boardwalks to see a wetland forest rarely found in the inner Piedmont of North Carolina. This 34-acre study area is recognized in the NC Registry of Natural Heritage areas for outstanding natural value.
Want to learn how to code video games
using your iPad? With Bloxels you can create
games that are fun and interactive.
Customize every aspect of your game from
characters to how they move in your game
world! Make anything from Super Mario to
your own unique creation! Participation in
this camp will give you access to instructional
videos and a physical Bloxels kit.
June 1-4
June 8-11
June 15-18
June 22-25
Instructor: Kyle Whisenant
$25
Nature Art Camp
Campers will be provided with a camp kit to make various nature crafts for their own backyard. Each day we will share our crafts virtually and plan out wildlife spaces that encourage natural spaces for living things!
June: 1-4
June 8-11
June 15-18
Instructor: Haylie Dixon
$60
Want to learn how to code video games
using your iPad? With Bloxels you can create
games that are fun and interactive.
Customize every aspect of your game from
characters to how they move in your game
world! Make anything from Super Mario to
your own unique creation! Participation in
this camp will give you access to instructional
videos and a physical Bloxels kit.
June 1-4
June 8-11
June 15-18
June 22-25
Instructor: Kyle Whisenant
$25
Nature Art Camp
Campers will be provided with a camp kit to make various nature crafts for their own backyard. Each day we will share our crafts virtually and plan out wildlife spaces that encourage natural spaces for living things!
June: 1-4
June 8-11
June 15-18
Instructor: Haylie Dixon
$60
Enjoy design? This camp is for you! In
this camp, you will be constructing,
designing, testing, and concluding your
projects success, or demise, as you try
and survive willingly against several
tests!
Register at Salisbury High School
704-636-1221 or
Barbara.Peach@rss.k12.nc.us
June 8 - 11
June 15 - 18
Instructor: Joe Lloyd
$35
Come cook with Mr. Neil and learn new
techniques and use local ingredients in
a new way. This camp gives you all the
supplies to make a 5-course meal over
the entire week. This course will
include step-by-step instructional
videos and a virtual meeting at 3:00 pm
each day to get ready for dinner!
Grossology Camp
The Science of the Disgusting will be
explored as campers create grotespue
crafts and unrav the mysteries of
grossness! Mrs. Meyer will be your
guide through your Grossology Kit!
June 8-12
June 15-19
June 22-26
July: 13-17
July 20-24
July 27-31
Instructor: Mary Meyer
$25
Nature Art Camp
Campers will be provided with a camp kit to make various nature crafts for their own backyard. Each day we will share our crafts virtually and plan out wildlife spaces that encourage natural spaces for living things!
June: 1-4
June 8-11
June 15-18
Instructor: Haylie Dixon
$60
Campers will be a survivor in this island
scenario. Each day's challenge in the morning
will give them clues to what the daily challenge
will be. Day 1 will be about finding water and
cleaning it. Day 2 will pertain to hunting,
trapping, fishing, and foraging for and cooking
food. Day 3 will center on finding shelter. Day 4
will focus on getting rescued or finding
civilization. Register at 704-636-1221 or
Barbara.Peach@rss.k12.nc.us
June 8 - 11
June 15 - 18
Instructor: Tasha Keyes
$35
Enjoy design? This camp is for you! In
this camp, you will be constructing,
designing, testing, and concluding your
projects success, or demise, as you try
and survive willingly against several
tests!
Register at Salisbury High School
704-636-1221 or
Barbara.Peach@rss.k12.nc.us
June 8 - 11
June 15 - 18
Instructor: Joe Lloyd
$35
The State of North Carolina passed HB 986 enabling qualifying school districts to become a renewal district. Currently only Rowan-Salisbury Schools district qualifies. On June 28th the RSS Board of Education elected to participate in this program. Click for details.
