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2011 Summer Camp Locations and Classes K-2 Shorty Howell Recreation Center Duluth, GA. June 6- 17, 2011 Grades K-5 $225 June 6-10, 2011 (Canceled) June 13-17, 2011 (Space available) Mountain Park Activity Building Stone Mtn, GA. June 13-17, 2011 (FULL) Grades K-5 K-2 PeeWee Engineers 3-5 Junior CSI and Forensic Science John H. Harland Boys and Girls Club Atlanta, GA. July 18-22, 2011 Grades K-5 K-2 PeeWee Engineers 3-5 Junior CSI and Forensic Science
ARCHIVED K-2 SUMMER CAMPS
PeeWee Engineers/ Robotics Camp Camp Code: PEWE June 7-11 2010 -WizKidz Science and Technology Center/ Dacula Location
-Georgia Institute of Technology/ July 19-23
CLOSED This course will introduce students to a variety of hands-on engineering, robotic and LEGO educational activities structured to enhance and inspire K-2 students involvement in science and technology. Students will participate in lunar robotic projects, learn programming using ROBOLab, and more. PeeWee Paleontologist Camp Code: PWPA June 14-18 2010 -WizKidz Science and Technology Center/ Dacula Location- $250 CLOSED This hands-on prehistoric adventure uses visual materials, fossils, scale model dinosaurs, and dino-digs to show the characteristics distinguishing dinosaurs, their world and what we know about them. Students will explore dinosaur paleontology and take virtual field trips across prehistoric lands long forgotten in search of ancient fossils. Like Museum paleontologists, students make their way into their very own paleontology laboratory as they attempt to reconstruct the lives of dinosaurs based on skeletal and environmental clues. Students will learn what information can be learned from fossil evidence, and also the limitations of what fossils can tell us about extinct animals and plants. Utilizing standards based activities; students will demonstrate their understanding of time periods, fossilization and more... PeeWee Programmers Camp Code: PWPRO June 21-25 -WizKidz Science and Technology Center/ Dacula Location- $275 CLOSED Using LEGO WeDo, and RoboLab students will experience the world of computing and programming as they design virtual worlds using SCRATCH, create mini-games and robotic programs using PC's. PeeWee Astronomers and Aviators Camp Code: PWAST July 5-9
-WizKidz Science and Technology Center/ Dacula Location- $275 CLOSED In this fun and interactive camp, K-2 students will explore astronomy and aviation! Using hands-on activities and experiments, your children will be fascinated from beginning to end as they explore NASA’s latest missions and learn the dynamics of flight. Activities include the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission to learning and studying parts of a plane and space shuttle. Using NASA engineering models and aerospace data students will take a virtual field trip to the moon and a field trip to the Lawrenceville Airport at Briscoe Field. Like astronauts and pilots, students will come face-to-face with the challenges and excitement of launching from Earth’s surface and journeying through space to using real airplane flight simulators to take a mission from country to country. The PeeWee Astronomy and Aviation course includes current and active, hands-on activities, NASA webinars, readings, take home worksheets, charts, interactive websites, full-color high resolution graphic activities, and more to provide a multisensory approach to learning about becoming an astronaut and pilot.
2010 Specialty Camps
AroPability (Accessible Robotic Programming for Students with Disabilities)
July 2010 The Center for the Visually Impaired- FREE This camp will identify means for increasing the computing pipeline by tapping into nontraditional populations. The program will target middle and high school students in order to engage during the critical years and will leverage support from the Center for the Visually Impaired, the National Federation of the Blind of Georgia, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Shadow for a Day (SFAD) Georgia Institute of Technology Grades 11 & 12/ FREE Date TBD Aerial Robotics Camp Georgia Tech Research Institute Fall After School 2010-2011 PC2Main @ Ga. Tech
Georgia Institute of Technology Grades 6-8/ FREE
Date: August 2-3, 2010 Shadow for a Day (SFAD) Spelman College Grades 6-8/ FREE Fall 2010 Project Identity Summer Institute-Residential Morehouse College Grades 6-12 Dates: July 8- July 22, 2010
2009 Summer Camps
ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Science Summer Camp
Georgia Institute of Technology
June 21- July 2, 2009
Grades 6-8
Cost: Free
CLOSED
The ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp (BHSSC) is a free, academic program of The Harris Foundation, which takes an active role in shaping education in students entering grade 6,7, or 8 in the fall of 2009. Science, technology, engineering and mathematics are critical to society’s infrastructure for the 21st century and preserving that future requires an investment, such as the BHSSC, in our youth today. This camp program was originally developed as a collaborative effort of the Harris Foundation, the Houston Independent School District, the University of Houston (UH) and the Southwestern Oklahoma State University (SWOSU), designed to support historically underserved and underrepresented students with limited opportunities.
**High school Juniors and Seniors interested in becoming Junior Camp Counselor Volunteers
**University Graduate and Undergraduate students interested in working as Camp Counselors
Please forward applications to: WizKidz Science and Technology Centers (BHSSC) P.O. Box 3452 Suwanee, Ga. 30024
SFAD (Shadow for a Day)
Georgia Institute of Technology
Dates: June- July 2009
Grades 9-12
Cost: Free
CLOSED
The Shadow for a Day (SFAD) Summer Program provides a unique opportunity for High School Juniors and Seniors to assist undergraduates from Georgia Tech’s School of Computer and Electrical Engineering (HumAnS) Laboratory and participate in investigative strategies for human interaction with tele-operated assistive robots in home environments.
For one day, participants will conduct research and assist the undergraduates on transplanting human-like reasoning powers into robotic systems and investigate approaches for encoding task knowledge so that teleoperation can be achieved at higher levels of abstraction, which requires less effort on the part of the operator. The research experience is a collaboration between WizKidz Science and Technology Centers and the ARTSI Alliance (Advancing Robotics for Society) Georgia Tech chapter. The application is only available by request by teachers and parents. The program recruits students interested in the following fields: robotics, engineering, computer science, and rehabilitation science. We encourage students to submit their applications as soon as possible to better ensure they are placed in their specific research area of interest.
coming soon...Jr. SFAD for grades 6-8
SFAD (Shadow for a Day)
Tuskegee University
Dates:June- July
Grades 9-12
Cost: Free
CLOSED
The Shadow for a Day (SFAD) II Aerospace Summer Program Is designed to be a continuation Aerospace program designed to further introduce high school Juniors and Seniors to the world of Aerospace engineering by allowing them the opportunity to assist undergraduates from the Aerospace Science Engineering Department at Tuskegee University located in Tuskegee, Alabama.
For one full day, students will have the opportunity to participate in Aerospace studies associated with aircraft engineering and develop an understanding of the dynamics with entering data in aircraft maintenance flight logs and recording systems. The students will also participate in troubleshooting and repair exercises as well as pre-flight and post flight inspections. Application and details available May 2009
Scholarships will be awarded to select students to participate in the SFAD II Aerospace Program.
SFAD (Shadow for a Day) and Jr. SFAD
Spelman College
coming Fall 2009...
SFAD (Shadow for a Day)
Moody Air Force Base
Jr. ROTC students
Applications available Mid-May
The SFAD program is designed for students interested in using their engineering skills in the military. The program will allow high school juniors and seniors the opportunity to shadow a military person in a particular career field for the day, normally 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
There will be one shadow day available the last Thursday of each month unless mission dictates otherwise.
 
Kidz College
PC2MAIN
Georgia Institute of Technology
Dates: April- July 2009
Grades 6-8
Cost:Free
CLOSED
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In this camp, we capitalize on the appeal of adventure games. The five day summer workshop will offer aspiring middle school engineers a high-tech learning adventure designed to teach skills in computer science using adventurous stories and simulation environments. Students will be introduced to emerging computing technologies like data mining, web search, and robotic simulations and ALICE.
Jr. Robotics Academy
Georgia Institute of Technology
Dates: June 8-12, 2009 and June 15-19, 2009 9am-5pm
Application deadline May 22, 2009- Deadline Extended to May 29th
This course will introduce students in grades 3-5 to robotic platforms and programming languages that involve real world applications used to solve real world problems. Students will learn mechanical design, construction, programming and teamwork skills. In small teams, using motors and sensors, students will explore gears and pulleys, build and control moon rovers, and finally build a robot that can find its own way and avoid obstacles on a moon terrain and rock simulation. Activities become more enhanced and challenge the students to solve real life engineering scenarios using robotics. Students learn computing fundamentals creating 3-D worlds using ALICE. Students will also use computing programs to teach their robot to move and react in order to solve challenges. Robotic platforms to include: LEGO Education, VEX, Parallax and K’Nex.
PeeWee Engineers Academy
Georgia Institute of Technology
June 8-12, 2009 and June 15-19, 2009 9am-5pm
Application deadline May 22, 2009/ Deadline Extended to May 29th
Grades K-2
Closed
Using the LEGO WeDO system, this course will introduce students to a variety of hands-on engineering, robotic and NASA educational activities structured to enhance and inspire K-2 students involvement in science and technology. Students will participate in lunar robotic projects, visit and study planets through virtual field trips, create a mini-movie, learn programming using SCRATCH and more.
Robotics 101
Georgia Institute of Technology-Technology Square Research Building
Dates: June 15-19, 2009 9am-5pm
Grades 6-8/ Application deadline May 22, 2009/ Deadline Extended to June 7th
Robotics and Computing 101
Georgia Institute of Technology- Technology Square Research Building
Dates June 15-19, 2009 9am-5pm
Grades: 9 and 10/ Application deadline June 7, 2009
CLOSED
This robotics course answers the question “What’s a microcontroller?” by showing students how they can design their own customized, intelligent inventions with the Parallax BASIC Stamp® microcontroller module. The activities in this course incorporate a variety of fun and interesting experiments designed to appeal to the student’s imagination by using motion, light, sound, and tactile feedback to introduce new concepts. The activities introduce students to a variety of basic principles in the fields of computer programming, electricity and electronics, mathematics and physics and artificial intelligence.
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