STEM camps

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 CCS STEM 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.

In addition, we continue to sponsor students to attend the Tapia Center summer camps at Rice University. Rice is expecting more than 800 students over the course of four weeks in July.

ExxonMobil and Denbury representatives attend each camp to engage with students and help them learn about carbon dioxide (CO₂) and the importance of its effective management in a lower-carbon future.

Learn more about the carbon capture and storage project

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. 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.

Learn more about Tapia Center STEM camps