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.

Summer@Brown

WHO:  Students completing 9^th-12^th grades by June 2012
WHAT:   Residential summer school at Brown University
WHERE:  Providence, Rhode Island

WHEN: June 17 - August 10, 2012

APPLICATION DEADLINE:  No application deadline for most programs

FOR MORE INFO (website): http://brown.edu/ce/pre-college/pre-college-courses.php

Student Participants Summer 2011: Will Sano ('12), Jesse Greenfield ('12), Robin Casset-Johnstone ('12)
A perspective from Will Sano ('12): 

NAME OF PROGRAM: Summer@Brown

SHORT SUMMARY OF PROGRAM: Summer@Brown is a summer academy for high school students that takes over the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The experience is meant to allow students to enroll in college-level classes while simultaneously enjoying their summer in the company of their intellectual peers. The length of the program depends on which classes you sign up for; some classes, like the Existentialist Literature class, last just a week, while others, like the intensive Pre-Med class, last almost seven. Class typically lasts about four hours per day, but this again depends on which classes you sign up for.

HIGHLIGHTS: I took a class entitled Laboratory Techniques in Biomedicine, and what I found most rewarding about this class was that I got to do experimental procedures and protocols too advanced for my high school curriculum. I also really enjoyed the activities Summer@Brown provided me outside the classroom, like a trip to Boston, a beach day in Newport, and a party on the last night. The quality and variety of the food options around Brown is excellent. I found myself returning to places like Kabob and Curry, East Side Pockets, and Mama Kim’s Korean Food Truck whenever possible. Though you might expect kids who go to summer school voluntarily to be insufferably intellectual and boring, I did not find this to be the case. Although I attended Summer@Brown with two of my friends from Bay, I met a whole group of kids who shared my interests with whom I could be myself and have fun.  

LOWS: This may be just a perceived low, but the classes at Summer@Brown do give out homework, and some even have tests and essays. While this does require you to spend some of your precious summer hours doing work, I can assure you it is work that you will enjoy. All of the classes at Summer@Brown are obviously elective, so your homework will likely interest you. Summer@Brown can also be very expensive, especially for those of us coming from the west coast who would require cross country airfare. Attendance for a two-week program (my suggested length of stay) is $3,540 for residential students, and $2,498 for students staying off campus. Scholarships are available, but are limited and competitive.

Feel free to contact me with questions about this program

Will Sano wsano@bayschoolsf.org

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

Coastal Marine BioLabs [California]

From the Coastal Marine BioLabs website: 
Located in Ventura Harbor, Coastal Marine Biolabs is a private, research-based science education organization that provides innovative field and laboratory-based learning experiences for high school students. Under the mentorship of CMB scientists, students use many of the key technological cornerstones of modern scientific discovery to explore contemporary questions that lie at the frontiers of scientific knowledge.


WHO:  Coed, juniors and seniors OR for summer sessions, rising junior and seniors
WHAT:  9 day residential marine science program
WHEN:  Different times throughout the year
WHERE:  Ventura, CA
MORE INFO:  http://www.coastalmarinebiolabs.org/

The Island School [Bahamas]

The Island School is a semester-long residential program in the Bahamas.  Classes at the Island School focus on the local environment, and cover the requirements to keep you on track to high school graduation.  The Island School is well established, and run with sponsorship from Lawrenceville Academy in Princeton NJ.

WHO:  Coed Students in 10th or 11th grade
WHAT: Residential Semester
WHERE:  Bahamas
APPLICATION DEADLINE:  Applications are due March 1 during your freshman or sophomore years
MORE INFO:  http://www.islandschool.org/

The Island School also offers a summer term: More Info

Waynflete School Sustainable Ocean Studies [Maine]

SOS is an inspiring and rigorous month-long summer program focused on promoting ocean health and sustainability.  Through engaging seminars and important field work along the Gulf of Maine, SOS provides a fun, empowering, and relevant learning experience that cultivates important skills for academic success in post-secondary studies.  Filled with adventure and a wide variety of field experiences, this program challenges participants to make full use of both their creative problem-solving and critical thinking skills while studying ecological and cultural sustainability.  SOS pays special attention to learning from local efforts in coastal Maine communities to preserve the marine resources on which those communities depend. Co-sponsored by the Coastal Studies for Girls.  


WHO:  Rising Juniors and Seniors
WHAT:  Month long academic program focusing on the oceans
WHERE: Waynflete School in Maine and Darling Marine Center. 
MORE INFO:  http://www.waynflete.org/podium/default.aspx?t=132374

Coastal Studies for Girls [Maine]

Coastal Studies for Girls is the country’s only residential science and leadership semester school for 10th grade girls. CSG is dedicated to girls who have a love for learning and discovery, an adventurous spirit, and a desire to challenge themselves.

WHO:  high school sophomores -- Sophomores only!

WHAT:  residential semester program focusing on marine studies on the coast of Maine

WHERE:  Maine

WHEN: during the school year

APPLICATION DEADLINE:  March 15 of your FRESHMAN year!

FOR MORE INFO:  http://www.coastalstudiesforgirls.org/