The McCaw School of Mines is a field trip destination for Clark County Nevada students to learn about Nevada History and Mining in Nevada.
Friends of McCaw School of Mines was created to support McCaw School of Mines and McCaw School of Mines Foundation.
McCaw School of Mines Foundation was formed to provide for the continuing development, operation and maintenance of McCaw School of Mines.
McCaw School of Mines is built on the campus of Gordon McCaw Elementary School. It started out as a paper-mâché model of a mine tunnel built into a corner of a classroom. Teacher Janet Bremer and others were instructing a course on Nevada Mining and felt the model would give fourth grade students more of an idea of what it was really like to be in a mine.
Shortly thereafter the Gordon McCaw Elementary School staff met, discussed the idea, and then decided to “think big”. As a result, in 1996 the McCaw School of Mines became a 4,500 square foot reality at the Gordon McCaw Elementary School in Henderson, Nevada. Built along the same lines as the Indiana Jones exhibit at Disneyland, it is the only simulated mine of its kind in the state of Nevada. In 2000, the Visitor’s Center was added to the site.
The mission of the McCaw School of Mines Foundation is to provide resources for a quality educational experience in the areas of geology, earth science, mining, and history to all who visit the McCaw School of Mines.
