The Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation offers a range of compelling residential, hands-on, interdisciplinary programs in conservation biology for high school, undergraduate and graduate students and professionals at our facility on the grounds of SCBI in Front Royal, Virginia, USA. Highly qualified world experts, including Smithsonian scientists, Mason faculty, and colleagues from other U.S. and international conservation organizations, provide students with direct connections to the most current teaching, research techniques, and work in the field. Students thrive in a collaborative atmosphere of creative, analytical thinking. For alumni of its programs, the School of Conservation offers the opportunity to become part of a lifelong, global community of learning that supports visionary thinking and informed practice of conservation biology along different career paths.