Elementary School STEM Camps
(5th and 6th grades)

One-week camps for upper elementary, middle school, and high schools for students who do or might have an interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and/or Mathematics (STEM). The students will be taken through a series of hands-on, student-centered experiences where they will learn a little bit about what each of the engineering fields do, build and test equipment and conduct experiments in the various disciplines that include all of STEM; including:

Topics may include, but are not limited to (some of these are weather dependent and usually not every single one of these are done although most are):

• Alternative Energy: Build and test solar cells made from powdered donuts and blackberry juice
• Alternative Energy: Build a battery using household items
• Alternative Energy: Build your own wind turbine
• Alternative Energy: Build a colorimeter and measure energy content of potato chips
• Alternative Energy: Build an oil lamp and a Thomas Edison light bulb from common household items
• Alternative Energy: Build a steam boiler to operate a wheel and blow a steam whistle
• Structures: Just like spacecraft landing on Mars, students will build structures that cushion impact of an egg dropped from a high location
• Structures: Students will learn to and will build bridges to distribute loads
• Electrical: Will build parallel and series circuits using flashlight bulbs and batteries
• Electrical: Will levitate pencils using ring magnets
• Electrical: Student will design and build their own speakers using common household items
• Electrical: Build flying machines that take video.
• Computer Engineering: Learn about components (motherboards, ram, hard drive, cpu, etc) and build your own computer from scratch
• Computer Science: Load an operating system onto a new computer
• Computer Science: Program LEGO Robots to navigate around obstacles

The extended camp hours are available until 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday for parents/ guardians who cannot pickup their children at 3 p.m.

Date: June 17th - 21th, July 8th - 12th, and July 29th - Aug 2nd

Time: 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Cost: $175
(Optional) Lunch for the week $45 per camper
(Optional) Extended camp hours $30 per day / per camper

Location:
Oakland University
2200 N. Squirrel Road
Rochester, MI 48309

For more information contact SECSOutreach@oakland.edu or visist the SECSOutreach website.