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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!

1 posted on 12/06/2008 6:48:56 AM PST by VastRWCon
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To: VastRWCon; Tanniker Smith

Tann, your son went to such a camp last summer, didn’t he?


2 posted on 12/06/2008 6:54:57 AM PST by HiJinx (~ Support our Troops ~ www.americasupportsyou.mil ~)
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To: VastRWCon

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.


3 posted on 12/06/2008 6:58:41 AM PST by VastRWCon (www.AuctionBump.com - free ebay auction advertising)
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To: VastRWCon
Uhh... the very best "summer camp in the Science/Math/Tech field" would be...

 

 

 

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, or

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.

And she will definitely be less numerate than when she left - that I can guarantee you.

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.

4 posted on 12/06/2008 7:01:14 AM PST by KayEyeDoubleDee
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To: VastRWCon

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.


5 posted on 12/06/2008 7:01:25 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: VastRWCon

Check nearby universities. I know our local Uni used to offer a “Summer Discovery” program with all sorts of different areas.


6 posted on 12/06/2008 7:02:50 AM PST by AntiKev ("The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena." - Carl Sagan)
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To: VastRWCon

1900 on SATs, did they change the numbering system?
My daughter got 1400/1600.
Anyway, she liked the NASA summer program.


10 posted on 12/06/2008 7:18:27 AM PST by svcw (Great selection of Christmas gift baskets: http://baskettastic.com/)
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To: VastRWCon

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


12 posted on 12/06/2008 7:24:03 AM PST by HomeschoolMomma (No thanks...I already have a Messiah!)
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To: VastRWCon

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.


13 posted on 12/06/2008 7:26:15 AM PST by Hyzenthlay (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: VastRWCon

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.


16 posted on 12/06/2008 7:32:29 AM PST by idkfa
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To: VastRWCon

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!!!!


19 posted on 12/06/2008 7:39:55 AM PST by HomeschoolMomma (No thanks...I already have a Messiah!)
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To: VastRWCon

The Nasa center in Huntsville, AL has a space camp. Check Georgia Tech here in Atlanta as well.

Here’s the link for the Marshall space Center in AL.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/home/index.html


22 posted on 12/06/2008 7:59:53 AM PST by MaggieAtlanta
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My son went to the All Arts and Sciences Camp sponsered by UNC-Greensboro this past summer. The kids get to pick two or more subjects to study. He did forensics and pixilation. The camp is held at different universities throughout the summer and the kids live on campus in the dorms and use the university facilities to do their research. He did his camp at William and Mary this past summer and loved it. In ‘09 he’ll go to the camp at Virginia Tech. I like the college atmosphere. I think it’ll help with the adjustment to campus life after high school. Google : All Arts and Sciences Camp, UNC - Greensboro.


23 posted on 12/06/2008 8:09:53 AM PST by Terpin (Missing: One very clever and insightful tagline. Reward for safe return!)
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i have a buddy from college who made the mistake of telling us that he went to accounting camp one summer. to this day his nickname is "nerd."

that being said my sister is a math major at U of Michigan and her future is ridiculously bright. i have no advice for you, but hey, at least you get a bump!

25 posted on 12/06/2008 8:17:05 AM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: VastRWCon

I think someone “negative” on this board must have been a BAD teenager and is speaking from personal experience - but not all kids are like that. If your daughter scored 1900, she obviously doesn’t have lesbian love fests on the brain, nor has she been drinking liberal global-warming kool-aid.

Do not let those other posters scare you from sending your daughter away. If you have done a good job raising her, you do not have to worry about her turning into a lesbian or coming home prego’s - PLEASE! The type of kids that go to these programs are the (for lack of a better word) nerds! These are the kids that are there to LEARN. Oh my gosh - kids that actually learn and achieve - what a concept!!! Plus it looks real good on a college application!

I spent the whole week near the campus and they had so much control at MST - there was never any time to get in trouble. The regular students were not there when the campers were! We used it as a trial run for college and it allowed my son to choose NOT to go into explosives as he once thought he wanted to, but he went for his second choice of computers and also found out he didn’t want to live at a dorm and instead chose a college closer to home saving us $$$$

You must have raised a smart, beautiful, trustworthy daughter, and what a great way for her to try out college living and get a taste of dorm life for a week.


27 posted on 12/06/2008 9:23:09 AM PST by HomeschoolMomma (No thanks...I already have a Messiah!)
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