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Welcome
The K-12 Student Outreach Program offers various science, mathematics, and technology-content-based courses for students in kindergarten through 12th grade.
Summer Camp schedules for Summer 2017 are not available at this time.
Registration for the 2017 summer camps will open in early February (Academies for Young Minds [Elementary School]) and March 2017 (STEM Camps [Middle School] and Engineering Design Summer Camps [High School]). Sign up at the right of this page to be notified automatically by email as soon as the schedules and themes are released.
Upcoming Student Programs
- Elementary School :: Academies for Young Minds
The Colorado School of Mines K-12 Student Outreach Program is excited to announce new summer camps for elementary school-aged students for 2017! These camps will provide an enriching environment and will encourage your child to be innovative and use creative problem-solving by engaging them in fun, hands-on activities.
- Middle School :: Discover STEM Camps
Discover STEM is a week-long summer camp held on-campus at Colorado School of Mines. Designed to introduce middle school students, grades 6-8, to science, technology, engineering and mathematical concepts, its goal is to create an environment where students have fun while learning new skills. More information is available on the Colorado School of Mines Center for Assessment and Outreach in STEM website, http://inside.mines.edu/CASTEM-Discover.
Prerequisites
To participate in the summer 2017 camps, students must be entering 6th, 7th or 8th grade in the fall of 2017.
- High School :: Engineering Design Summer Camps
The Engineering Design Summer Camp, offered through the K-12 Student Outreach Program at Colorado School of Mines, provides an opportunity for high school students to attend a weeklong summer camp on the Mines campus in Golden, Colorado. The objective of the camp is to guide participants through a fun and rewarding hands-on experience of authentic engineering design practices.
How will high school students experience this process?
Participants will follow a condensed form of a management sequence for engineering design. They will spend two days creating a conceptual design for a specific device. Guidance will focus on the visualization, team formation and project documentation to demonstrate the feasibility of their devices. This phase will culminate with a management design review to sign off on their drawings. For the next two days, they will create, model, and refine their device prior to building a test prototype to compete in the challenge. Following construction, they will undergo a readiness review to assure their device meets project specifications. On the final day, teams will compete in oral and marketing presentations as part of the final exhibition of the team’s product. The product will conclude with a ceremony celebrating the successes of all participants.
What is the value of such an experience?
Engineering Design is a means to solving open-ended problems. It is a life skill that can be applied to many other situations – not just the technical world of engineering. Students will be challenged to invent, to create, to design, and to build. They will experience the satisfaction of an exciting activity, resulting in their very own unique product. They will learn to listen to and to respect the ideas of their teammates. And most of all, they will learn the confidence to resolve their own open-ended problems, and the ability to apply engineering concepts to them.
Prerequisites
Students must be entering in the fall of 2017 one of the grade levels shown for a camp in order to participate. Please be sure to check the grade levels associated with each camp, since not all camps are available for all grade levels.