GAMES! Girls’ Adventures in Math, Engineering, and Science

Girls’ Adventures in Math, Engineering, and Science (GAMES) Camp is a week-long residential summer program for academically talented rising 9^th – 12^th grade girls. GAMES is being held on the Engineering campus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign July 14 to 20, 2013.

The mission of GAMES is simple: To promote and retain interest in the STEM fields during the age when some girls start to stray away from math and science. Our camp is designed to expose intelligent young women to a chosen engineering discipline through demonstrations, classroom presentations, hands-on activities, field trips, and contacts with female faculty and other professional women in the field. This approach proves to be very successful in developing brilliant young minds and encouraging these students to pursue higher education in a STEM field.

Please consider announcing this opportunity to your students and posting the flyer attached below.  You and your students can learn more about our camp track options, daily schedules, and application information at: http://go.illinois.edu/games.

Please note that due to generous corporate support, we are able to provide need-based financial aid packages to qualified applicants, and encourage all female students with strong math and/or science skills to apply.

If you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to contact the Women in Engineering Office at engr-games@illinois.edu.

MIT Ocean Engineering Experience

The Ocean Engineering Experience ( O EX ) is a weeklong academic program for students entering 11th or 12th grade. Students gain experience in mechanical and ocean engineering through designing and building marine vehicles and structures. Students are submerged into real world scientific problems that require teamwork, science and engineering to solve. The program culminates in a demonstration open to the MIT community and the general public.

Topics covered during the week include: forces and moments, basic electric circuits, DC motors, engineering design and basic engineering measurement and analysis. Instruction is provided by MIT graduate and undergraduate students, research staff and faculty with experience in robotics, ocean engineering, mechanical engineering and other related expertise.

OEX takes place on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Participants are housed in dormitories and use MIT laboratories and other facilities to complete their work. The cost for the full week, including room and board, is $1,400. Partial tuition and travel scholarships are available.

WHO:  Coed,  rising junior and seniors
WHAT:  8 day residential ocean engineering program
WHEN:  July 9-16, 2011
WHERE:  MIT SeaGrant College, Cambridge, MA
MORE INFO:  http://theoceanengineeringexperience.mit.edu
                         617-715-5718
                         Email: oex@mit.edu

Nanoscale Science and Engineering Internship at UC Berkeley

From their website:

High school students will do hands-on scientific investigations in a dynamic research environment at UC Berkeley.  The students will work with graduate student researchers in NSE faculty laboratories, gaining first-hand experience in how science and engineering research is conducted.


Check the website for more information: http://nano.berkeley.edu/educational/sharp.html#