Don Williams at INL, University Place, Idaho Falls
INL 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