Tag: summer camps

Campus is a busy place during summer break

Posted by on July 20, 2024

Courtney Jones, director of the Kummer Center for STEM Education, highlights some of the unique experiences at S&T’s recent summer camps.

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Teens go nuclear at Missouri S&T summer camp 

Posted by on July 12, 2024

When summertime arrives, teenagers may spend time relaxing, enjoying the outdoors, working a part-time job at a local fast-food restaurant — or operating a nuclear reactor. 

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Roll out the red carpet: Missouri S&T’s Movie Makers camp to host celebration June 24

Posted by on June 20, 2023

Movie Makers, an evening camp offered by the Kummer Center for STEM Education at Missouri University of Science and Technology, will host a red-carpet themed celebration of films made by participants at 6 p.m. Saturday, June 24 in Room 140 Toomey Hall at S&T.

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S&T opens registration for summer day camps focused on invention, subsurface engineering

Posted by on May 17, 2022

Registration is open for two additional summer day camps at S&T. Camp Invention is for students entering grades 2-6; Subsurface Engineering Day Camp is for those entering grades 8-12.

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Missouri S&T returns to in-person summer camps for students in grades 2-12

Posted by on March 1, 2022

After two years of virtual and hybrid youth camps, Missouri S&T’s in-person summer camps are back. From June 5-July 28, students in grades 2-12 will be able to immerse themselves in STEM-related subjects ranging from physics, computing and robotics to aerospace and explosives.

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Missouri S&T to host four in-person summer camps

Posted by on May 14, 2021

Missouri S&T will host four in-person summer camps in addition to its already announced virtual camps. All S&T campers can practice team-building and social skills while learning what it takes to have a career in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.

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Missouri S&T to host virtual summer camps, need-based scholarships available

Posted by on March 19, 2021

Missouri S&T will host eight summer camps in virtual settings for 2021, due to continuing COVID-19 safety precautions.

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Launching satellites to learn, despite a pandemic

Posted by on September 24, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic did not allow Missouri S&T to host its popular summer camps for elementary and high school students in person during the summer of 2020. As a result, S&T held its first-ever virtual summer camp focused on space. The camp culminated in a satellite launch event to witness more than a dozen camper-built small satellites travel 100,000 feet into the air on a high-altitude balloon. Campers tracked the flight in August and later received images and data captured by the satellites from the edge of space.

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Missouri S&T’s first virtual camp to finish with satellite launches

Posted by on July 24, 2020

Missouri S&T’s first virtual summer camp will conclude with a launch event to watch more than a dozen camper-built small satellites travel 100,000 feet into the air on-board a high-altitude balloon. Campers will track the flight in August and receive images and data captured by the satellites from the edge of space.

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Missouri S&T summer camps go virtual

Posted by on June 5, 2020

Missouri S&T is moving three of its pre-college summer camps to a virtual format for 2020, due to continuing COVID-19 concerns.

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