Print This Page2010 Summer Academies in Math, Science and Technology - Grades 8-9
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This academy provides opportunities for developing skills to learn mathematics and science. Mathematical activities include code-breaking cryptology and fractal pattern recognition. Science experiences include field trips, real-world technologies, rocketry and laboratory work where students seek to understand the natural world. The use of problem-solving ideas and project-based learning integrate these mathematics and science experiences.
Contact: Dr. John Matsson, jmatsson@oru.edu, 918.495.6935
This academy will provide two cohorts of 24 students a one-week experience studying Oklahoma’s natural resources. On field trips, water samples and macroinvertebrates will be collected, identified, sorted and analyzed to determine water “health.” Computers will be used to graph and report data. Students will learn safety and ethical concerns involved with fieldwork and laboratory experiments. The combination of field trips and science and computer experiences will provide students an opportunity to gain math, science and critical-thinking skills while experiencing campus residential life.
Contact: Dr. Raymond Frazier, frazierr@redlandscc.edu
This academy offers a two-week commuter program focusing on aeronautics for 30 students entering eighth and ninth grades. Students will attend classes at Westheimer Field, the University of Oklahoma’s official airfield, and will not only have pilots as instructors, but will be able to fly in one of the university’s Piper Warrior III aircraft. These aircraft are owned, operated and expertly maintained by OU. The combination of classroom instruction, field experiences and flight time in university aircraft will offer students a “hands-on approach” to learning about aeronautics and careers in the aeronautical field. Students will gain first-hand knowledge and behind-the-scenes experiences that cannot be duplicated.
Contact: Pam Lewis, plewis@ou.edu or visit http://youth.ou.edu/
The residential TEC Academy will focus on activities integrating GPS with GIS software. Students will use handheld GPS receivers for data collection at The University of Tulsa and during a field trip and then process the data to create interactive GIS maps. Students will work individually and in groups with personal computers to create PowerPoint presentations. Students will use digital cameras and camcorders, download datasets from the Internet, participate in chat rooms, use innovative software, and participate in GPS scavenger hunts and geocaches.
Contact: Dr. David Brown, 918.631.2719 or visit http://orgs.utulsa.edu/tec/
Twenty-four rising eighth- and ninth-grade students will participate in this one-week residential academy. Students will engage in laboratory and field experiences to enrich knowledge and use modern scientific technology. Students will also participate in a science, technology, engineering and mathematics career exploration activity, take a field trip to the research facilities at the Noble Foundation and complete three instructional units in bioethics.
Visit: www.wosc.edu//index.php?page=summer-science-academy