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Education Initiatives

We believe that our industry will be shaped tomorrow by the bright students we support in our communities today. ExxonMobil Pipeline Company encourages learning through programs including STEM camps, scholarships, environmental conservation and more.

2025 Tapia Carbon STEM Camps and Programs

Since 2017, ExxonMobil has taken great pride in our partnership with the Rice University Tapia Center. Together, we have worked to enhance educational experiences and opportunities within communities where we operate. This collaboration underscores our commitment to empowering educators and students, particularly in the vital fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

In 2025, we are supporting expanded collaboration of the Tapia Center with universities across the Gulf Coast. We are continuing to work with Rice University in Houston, Texas; Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi; and Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; but new this year, we are also working with Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee. Also new in 2025, we are partnering with the Allen Parish (LA) School Board and SOWELA Technical Community College to present a week-long residential STEM professional development camp for 40 educators in Southwest Louisiana educators. We continue to expand our offerings to include a variety of STEM programming options across different educational levels, ranging from fourth and fifth grade elementary schools to middle and high school students. In Summer 2025, we will also be incorporating a "Porosity Mathematical Modeling Challenge" for advanced college engineering students.

ExxonMobil representatives attend each camp to engage with students and help them learn about carbon dioxide and the importance of its effective management in a lower-carbon future.

2024 Tapia STEM CCS Camps

In 2024, we supported the collaboration of the Tapia Center with Jackson State University in Mississippi and Southern University Baton Rouge in Louisiana. We also assisted with the first ever on-site Tapia STEM CCS Camp held directly with a school district in the U.S., in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. In addition, we continued to sponsor students to attend the Tapia Center summer camps at Rice University in Texas. Overall, more than 1,300 students and educators from more than 200 school districts across the Gulf Coast region learned more about carbon capture and storage.

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Jackson State University Camp

Southern University Camp

Rice University Camps

Ascension Parish, Louisiana Schools

CCS STEM Camp at Southern University

2023 STEM Camps

More than 500 students from 55 school districts across Texas and Louisiana participated in the 2023 Tapia Center STEM camps hosted by Rice and Southern Universities. Sponsored by ExxonMobil, the camp’s curriculum was specifically designed by Rice University to educate future energy and community leaders about the importance of effective carbon management through hands-on project-based learning, team building and problem solving. Students presented on what carbon dioxide is and where it comes from, why Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is important, and how carbon dioxide can be stored in underground reservoirs.

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CCS STEM Camp at Rice University

STEM Camp Scholarships

ExxonMobil is proud to support Rice University’s STEM initiatives through scholarships for students to attend STEM Camp and educators to attend the Project-Based-Learning Professional Development Camp.

Participating students are rising 8th-12th graders and 11th graders who are in the top 3 of their class are encouraged to participate in the Top 3 program. Educators can be K-12 and can be STEM or non-STEM.

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Creating An Environment of Education

In partnership with the Wildlife Habitat Council, ExxonMobil Pipeline Company is working to educate area youth about environmental conservation. For example, Tara Bazille, a Baton Rouge Refinery employee and volunteer, helps lead tours and events at the wildlife refuge as part of the Lands for Learning initiative. From understanding the health of an ecosystem to planting more than 100 trees every year, the program is inspiring younger generations to find environmental solutions for the future. Read more about environmental education in Louisiana.

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“I learned how to use a different part of my brain [at STEM Camp] and think more analytically about different situations.”

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“It opens a whole new way of teaching and learning.”

The Next Generation of STEM

The Tapia Center at Rice University’s STEM Camp is changing the lives of students and educators through exploration and discovery. Hundreds of people annually from all over the world gain the opportunity to learn cutting-edge science and how to communicate about it thanks to the investment from ExxonMobil.