Explore Science
Summer Camp for rising 7th through 10th graders
Sunday, June 29 to Thursday, July 3 (for rising 7-8th graders)
Sunday, July 15 to Thursday, July 17 (for rising 9-10th graders)
Campers will explore different types of sciences, including ones not normally taught in middle school or high school. Relevant, fun, hands-on activities will be taught by our nationally recognized Virginia Tech professors and staff.
Topics may include:
- Neuroscience—the adaptive brain!
- DNA form and function
- Battle of the bacteria—a game of survival
- Paleontology—the evolution of ancient life forms
- Serious fun with physics
- Nanoscience and Bucky balls
- Food microbiology
- Crime scene investigation
- Creative coding
- Game theory and experimental economics
- Craters!
- Behavioral genetics: How our genes and our environment interact with one another
Cost: $1100
Camp fees cover faculty instructional time, equipment, supplies, room and board, resident assistants and program assistants. If your child will need a scholarship to participate, please apply for one in the camp application form. Families are responsible for transportation to/from the Virginia Tech campus.
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Day 1
- Check in 3:00 pm
- Orientation
- Dinner
- Group games
- Team meetings
- Lights out by 10 pm
Day 2
- Breakfast
- Neuroscience and our brains
- Chemistry and batteries
- Slime mold intelligence, part 1
- Lunch
- World of Microbiology, part 1
- Nanoscience and Bucky Balls
- Dinner
- Group games
- Team meetings
- Lights out by 10 pm
Day 3
- Breakfast
- Fun with Physics
- Temperature, Light and Chemistry
- Slime mold intelligence, part 2
- Lunch
- World of Microbiology, part 2
- Crime Scene Analysis (Blood, sweat and tears)
- Dinner
- Group games
- Team meetings
- Lights out by 10 pm
Day 4
- Breakfast
- Psychology Games
- Projectile prediction lab
- Slime mold intelligence, part 3
- Lunch
- Duck Pond Flora
- WAVES: Physics and music
- Computational thinking
- Dinner
- Group games
- Team meetings
- Lights out by 10 pm
Day 5
- Breakfast
- Invasive Species
- Game theory and strategy games
- Lunch
- Pack and clean rooms
- Check out of camp 1:00 pm