Acting as scientists, students will utilize methodologies that integrate multidisciplinary techniques to move beyond memorizing facts about nature. Through observation and critical thinking skills, they will formulate hypotheses about animals, their survival adaptations and their relationship to environmental issues. Digital video will record data to test their hypotheses. Students will apply math and science knowledge and build leadership, team-building and deductive-reasoning skills. On the final day, students will attend college at Northeastern State University in Broken Arrow to act as scientists and present their research findings to their families.
Contact: Dr. Erik Terdal, drterdal@gmail.com
Students will apply math and science skills while participating in hands-on lab exercises in seven different programs offered at Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology. Participants will have the opportunity to actually go on the job and in the classroom with culinary arts, engineering technologies, visual communications, nursing, information technologies, automotive and air conditioning/refrigeration graduates. In addition, students will experience college life in the dorms. Students will participate in many fun-filled evening activities and investigate the undeniable claim that a college degree will take students where they want to go.
Contact: Laura Nell Ledford, lauranell.ledford@okstate.edu, 918.293.4855 or 918.293.4853 (fax) or visit http://www.osuit.edu/news_and_events/summer_academies/
The Department of Engineering and Physics at the University of Central Oklahoma will offer two separate, five-day, non-residential sessions in engineering physics. Each session will be limited to 15 eighth-10th graders. Participants will learn about engineering and physics applications such as mechanics, electronic instrumentation and robotics. Each participant will work in a team with two other students to complete projects and, using what they have learned, set their team in competition with other teams. A UCO engineering physics or biomedical engineering student will guide each team, while UCO engineering and physics faculty members will serve as instructors. In a series of lunchtime seminars, participants will hear presentations from UCO faculty about science and technology opportunities in Oklahoma, as well as new and exciting areas of engineering and applied physics.
Contact: Dr. Ronald C. Miller, Department of Engineering and Physics, and Dr. Charles A. Hughes, College of Mathematics and Science, University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N. University, Edmond, OK 73034, rmiller@uco.edu or chughes@uco.edu, 405.974.5471 or 405.974.2722, or visit http://www.engineering.uco.edu/