One-week camps for upper elementary, middle school, and high schools for students who do or might have an interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and/or Mathematics (STEM). The students will be taken through a series of hands-on, student-centered experiences where they will learn a little bit about what each of the engineering fields do, build and test equipment and conduct experiments in the various disciplines that include all of STEM; including:
Topics may include, but are not limited to (some of these are weather dependent and usually not every single one of these are done although most are):
Alternative Energy: Build and test solar cells made from powdered donuts and blackberry juice!
Alternative Energy: Build a battery using household items
Alternative Energy: Build your own wind turbine
Energy: Build a colorimeter and measure energy content of potato chips
Energy: Build an oil lamp and a Thomas Edison light bulb from common household items
Energy: Build a steam boiler to operate a wheel and blow a steam whistle
Structures: Just like spacecraft landing on Mars, students will build structures that cushion impact of an egg dropped from a high location
Structures: Students will learn to and will build bridges to distribute loads
Industrial and Systems: Take part in an assembly line manufacturing process, find improvements
Electrical: Will build parallel and series circuits using flashlight bulbs and batteries
Electrical: Will levitate pencils using ring magnets
Electric: Student will design and build their own speakers using common household items
Electrical: Build flying machines that take video.
Computer Engineering: Learn about components (motherboards, ram, hard drive, cpu, etc) and build your own computer from scratch
Computer Science: Load an operating system onto a new computer
Computer Science: Program LEGO Robots to navigate around obstacles
Typical Agenda:
Monday (Mechanical Engineering Day): Introductions, what is STEM?, the jobs marketplace
Tuesday (Electrical Engineering Day): Build circuits, lemon batteries, experiment with magnetism, use lemons to power lights
Wednesday (Computer Science and Engineering Day): Build computers from scratch, learn how the components work, program robots to perform tasks
Thursday (Industrial and Systems Engineering Day): take part and make improvements in an assembly line manufacturing process
Friday: Campus technology tour
- Alternative energy projects
- Clean Energy Research Center (CERC)
- Chrysler robotics lab
- Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) lab
- Ground robotics student lab
- Aerial vehicles student team demo
- Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Formula 1 assembly garage
Also, student project presentations, awarding of certificates and closing ceremony.
Registration information:
June 17-21, July 8-12, July 29-Aug2, 8am-3pm: Elementary STEM. 5th, 6th grades. Registration fee: $175
June 24-28, July 15-19, Aug 5-9, 8am-3pm: Middle STEM. 7th-9th grades. Registration fee: $185
July 1-3, 8am-3pm: High School STEM. 10th-12th grades. REDUCED COST Registration fee: $117
July 22-26, Aug 12-16, 8am-3pm: High School STEM. 10th-12th grades. Registration fee: $195
If interested please inquire by emailing SECSOutreach@oakland.edu