Golf course professionals are giving South Carolina students the opportunity to learn about the industry in a special program that turns a golf course into a classroom.On Thursday, The Walker Course at Clemson University hosted its First Green event."It's a STEAM program to learn some science, technology, education of all those things, math, engineering," said Don Garrett, the course's superintendent certified with the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America.STEAM stands for science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. Seventh and eighth-grade students who go through the program get hands-on educational lessons from golf course superintendents. "So, we do things with soil; we have a soil station. We have an irrigation and water management station, for the engineering side of it. Our equipment technician will be here and showing them how to maintain mowers and how we set up the mowers to cut. And some of the specialized tool use," said Garrett.Students even got to play some golf. "The kids just love it, they’ve been talking about it all week," said Amanda Plumblee, R.C. Edwards Middle school teacher.Organizers hope these young students will walk away with a different perspective. "We want them to have a better understanding of the water usage on a large scale, that's one thing we look at in our course. And we just want them to have a broader perspective of possible career opportunities in the STEAM field," said Plumblee. "It's just not cutting grass all the time. And then hearing from the teachers back about kids that really get excited about it, about being out here and thinking that that might be something that they want to do," said Garrett. This is the fourth year of the First Green event at Clemson University.