CLEMSON, SC – Encourage your budding architect, scientist or engineer with an academic camp experience on the Clemson University campus. Going into its 27th year, the Summer Science...
CLEMSON, SC – Encourage your budding architect, scientist or engineer with an academic camp experience on the Clemson University campus. Going into its 27th year, the Summer Science, Engineering and Architecture Enrichment Program has new classes and adventures for bright middle and high school students.
The camp lets sixth- to 12th-grade students get a taste of what it is like to be a Clemson University student. Participats select two half-day classes or one full-day class each week. All middle and high school students learn from the one-week introductions to college subjects. Advanced high school students study specialized topics in the two-week classes.
Classes are taught by faculty in their on-campus classrooms and laboratories. Class activities include analyzing recombinant DNA, creating architectural and computer-assisted design models, making biodiesel fuel, programming robots and learning to perform a bypass operation on a cow’s heart. Four new computer classes teach students digital image and video editing, Java and Visual Basic Express programming, special effects production and how to program wireless sensor networks. Field-study classes explore the Clemson campus and Experimental Forest.
Students live in Clemson University housing and eat in the dining hall. Evening activities include movies, social events, visits to the campus arcade and bowling alley, dances and swimming at Fike gymnasium. Students staying for multiple weeks have Saturday field trips.
Barbara Speziale, professor and associate dean for undergraduate studies, academic outreach and summer academic programs at Clemson, views the camp as “the absolutely best way for students to experience college subjects in a setting that is both academic and enjoyable. It’s an excellent opportunity for students to get to know the Clemson faculty.”
Students describe their classes as awesome and especially like the fun experiments, the freedom they have to design and build and that the classes challenge them to think, Speziale said.
The Summer Science, Engineering and Architecture Enrichment Program is offered through the Clemson Office of Undergraduate Studies and Clemson University Science Outreach. Classes start June 8.
For more information and to download registration forms go to www.clemson.edu/summerscience. For questions or to receive a brochure, contact Nell Coffey (864) 656-5849 or e-mail cnell@clemson.edu or summerscience@clemson.edu.