Posted on 12/06/2008 6:48:55 AM PST by VastRWCon
Again freepers are the smartest people I know so I thought I would ask here. I am looking for a good summer camp in the Science/Math/Tech field to send my daughter (16) to this summer. I was wondering if any of you freepers know of any good summer programs/camps in the US.
Her interests include forensics, chemistry, physical science, technoloy. She loves shows like House, Bones, and NCIS. She got a 1900 on her SAT (Junior year) and will take it again next year.
Any help would be very much appreciated! Thanks!
Tann, your son went to such a camp last summer, didn’t he?
On a side note, my daughter received an invitation to the “National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine” but that program appears to be more for students that want to be doctors.
drumroll please...
Home Schooling!
Seriously, dude - if you send your 16-year-old daughter off to just about any "camp" in the world these days, then expect her to either
1) Come back pregnant, orAnd she will definitely be less numerate than when she left - that I can guarantee you.2) Come back s/p a dilation & curettage, or
3) Come back a man-hating dyke, or
4) Come back believing in [and preaching] all sorts of nonsense like "global-warming" [to include myriad other flavors of soul-eating nihilism], or
5) All of the above.
PS: And sending your daughter off to a "camp in the Science/Math/Tech field" strikes me as a really good first step on her road to becoming a childless, never-married, 40-year-old feminazi, with a barren womb, living off of government grants, all alone in an apartment filled with stray cats.
I think Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois used to run a summer camp for teens, but when I looked all it offers is one for kids.
Check nearby universities. I know our local Uni used to offer a “Summer Discovery” program with all sorts of different areas.
what the heck happened to you?
Thanks, I am checking with her school for more information about other camps, I wanted to check with you freepers too. Thanks for the positive reply.
I paid attention to the world as it exists, and did not allow myself to pretend that the world was something other than what it was.
Plus, I've spent my entire life around University people, and I understand all too well the nihilism which is quickly driving them into extinction.
1900 on SATs, did they change the numbering system?
My daughter got 1400/1600.
Anyway, she liked the NASA summer program.
Here is a great one. Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla. www.mst.edu
Camp Link - http://dce.mst.edu/noncredit/precollege/index.html
My son went there last year it was AWESOME. Its real competitive to get into so check it out early!!!! He went for their Explosives Camp. My son literally got to “blow $#!^ up” for a whole week. He got to go into real mines, blow up the side of a mountain, make a huge waterspout, explode real dynamite, and put on a real fireworks display. They even brought in Bomb Robots and let the students contol them! In the camp and my son was recorded for a new Discovery Channel series coming out this spring called “Extreme Explosives”. Look for it soon!!!
The professor was incredible. They have other camps - one even made just for girls interested in the science fields. The campus was small, safe, and clean! I would feel safe leaving my daughter there. We stayed in Rolla for the week and loved it!
Here is a link to some of the You-tube videos of the things they blew up at camp!
Check out this Camp video students made - Really Good! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIGJPWAynDQ
Waterspout - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m8zV7Wiclc
I Beam - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNTQ_ebkbXU
Watermelon - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NYlSe49g-Q
Surface Mining - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av7lIPyisgc
By the time kids are 16, I don’t think there’s a whole lot of ‘summer camps’ left. However, she should be old enough for a ‘summer college’ type program at a local university, where she takes a summer semester college course or two alongside other ‘summer college’ students and regular college students. However, the ‘summer college’ students are all kept in the same dorm, and pretty heavily supervised with curfews and sign-in sheets and such, so it’s not like you’d be letting her run around a college campus all summer. At my school, she’d be able to take pretty much any summer course offered to the regular students, which is how we have enough interest in some of our classes to be able to offer them during the summer. And, the best part is at many colleges a program like this would get her some college credits, too.
I think the new SAT includes a essay area and the new total is 2400.
Hi, thanks, yes thats what I ment to say, more of a college level camp not a summer camp for kids. Great suggestions, thanks!
Sounds just like my daughter who has been busy sending applications to universities to enter aerospace engineering next fall.
Try this link
http://www.tryengineering.org/become.php?page=camps
or your state university’s Women in Science and Engineering Program. I visited a few colleges with her and being an engineer myself, I was really impressed with some of the Women in Engineering programs. She ended up only doing a 4 day engineering workshop the summer between her junior and senior year which spent time experiencing the different fields of engineering.
Never mind KayEyeDoubleDee, I work with plenty of women in the science field and never met one like she describes.
Wow, great links, thanks for the info and encouragement!
WOW, this is cool, I want to go myself! Thanks for the great info and to opening our eyes on all the cool camps out there!
I wanted to add - MST - its not just “summer camp” its a high level college program for high schoolers and FUN!!!! My son literally had a BLAST!!!
Seriously check out at least the first video. Gives you a sense of the TIME and MONEY the school puts in plus the camp only cost me about $500 total for the week for EVERYTHING!!!!
Fixed it for ya.
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