STEMersion teachers will get a behind the scenes look into the inner workings of Great Wolf Lodge. 

In 2008, North Carolina suffered from its worst drought on record. That’s also the same year Great Wolf Lodge Resorts broke ground on a new, 80,000-square-foot waterpark resort in Concord. Great Wolf relied on regenerative media filters along with other water-saving measures to gain approval for construction. Great Wolf Lodge Resorts began using regenerative media filtration systems in 2004. Since installing regenerative media filters, the waterparks use 80- to 90 percent less water than two of its earlier installations that include sand filters, says Steve Shattuck, the resort chain’s communications director

Because the filtration was so efficient, Great Wolf management began to notice that the hotel portion of the resorts used twice as much water per day as the waterpark components — not something anyone would expect. As a result, the company launched Project Green Wolf, which included rewriting nearly every page of its operational procedures manuals. Regenerative media filtration systems were written in as the new standard to maximize recycling and reuse, as well as reducing chemical use in the waterparks