Don Williams at INL, University Place, Idaho Falls

Idaho National LaboratoryINL Summer STEM camps, covered may aspects of engineering. Our first three weeks we hosted Middle and High school students at a Cyber Security camp, utilizing CyberPartiot curriculum. The next three weeks we assisted with the 1st – 8th grade engineering camps. Our final week we hosted High school students at a robotics engineering camp.

All of these camps gave us the opportunity to introduce science, technology and engineering concepts to young students. I thoroughly enjoyed all of the camps, though the High school aged students were particularly rewarding to work for the material we were working with. There were a few technology glitches we had to work through, I offered CEI’s campus as an alternative as adequate resources are already prepared for this type of activity. I do feel that I (as well as Josh Duersch) was able to add a great deal to the presentation of the Cyber camp. We also were able to help with the robotics camp. I would definitely look forward to participating in this camp again next year.

Grade Level and Subject Taught: MIddle and High School