Each student must bring a signed copy of our Student Visitor Agreement form, which you receive in your confirmation email. You can also download a copy.

Generally speaking, all field trips begin between 8:30 – 9:00 AM depending on travel time. Full-day field trips end between 1:45 – 2:15 PM and half-day field trips end between 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM. We understand bus restrictions and travel time can sometimes be an issue. Please let us know if you need to adjust your arrival and/or departure time, and we will try our best to accommodate your needs.

Our lab can accommodate a minimum of 10 students and a maximum of 32 students.

We offer reimbursement to cover the cost of up to two substitute teachers and one district school bus for Alabama public schools. Please have someone from your finance department send an invoice to stem@southernresearch.org. Detailed instructions can be found here.

All Southern Research field trips are free! Field trip opportunities are made possible through support from the State of Alabama.

We host field trips at Southern Research in our STEM Education Outreach Center, located at 2000 9th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35205.

Please take a look at our calendar under Field Trip Experiences. The calendar lists all open and available dates for field trips.

Our funding enables us to serve the entire state of Alabama, thus we must limit field trip requests to one request per teacher per year. If you would like to bring more students, please collaborate with other teachers from your school. You may also submit additional requests that we can put on our waitlist, and if we have availability, we will reach out to you. 

Please fill out the request form and you will receive a confirmation email from our STEM team within 24 hours. Please note this form is a request for that date and field trip experience, and it does not lock in your reservation until you receive official confirmation from our STEM team.

We provide field trip experiences for 6th – 12th grade students here at Southern Research. Unfortunately, we cannot host K-5 students at our facility due to safety concerns. But, we love engaging with eager, young future scientists and engineers! To see what we offer for K-5 students, check out our Elementary School tab for more information.