About Cairn Educational Consulting
Vision
As passionate science educators and life-long learners, our vision at Cairn Educational Consulting is to be leaders in providing excellence in science education. Our philosophy strongly encompasses providing excellence in science education for the sake of science and for the better good.
Values
Cairn Educational Consulting firmly believes in providing quality science education that focuses on what is best for our students. Students deserve to be challenged and also be willing to rise to the challenge when the bar is raised. Encouraging curiosity in students helps them to become life-long learners and enables them to explore new ideas, discover their passions, and achieve greater success in their academic and personal pursuits.
Why the name Cairn?
Simply defined, the word cairn is Scottish and the simple meaning is pile of rocks. However, the use of these ‘piles of rocks’ can be traced back to time immemorial and have great significance. Cairns have been used as ancient memorials to those lost at war, as markers of human travel routes and, most recently, as carefully constructed trail markers. Most commonly, cairns resemble a conical shape of stacked rocks. However, in the early 1900’s, the Bates Cairn, was first introduced by Waldron Bates, a trail builder in the early days of Acadia National Park in Maine.
The Bates Cairn, on which our logo is inspired, consists of two large base stones supporting a mantle between them. A fourth rock, the pointer rock, rests on top, and along with the base stones (and the space between them), points in the direction of the trail. Layers of base stones are sometimes added for height and visibility.
Park Rangers construct cairns to show direction on trails. Hikers are discouraged from creating ornamental cairns since they can distract other hikers from the actual direction of the path.
Cairn Educational Consulting, LLC is blazing a new path to an excellent science education experience.
