For Okanagan kids itching to explore their engineering or science careers, UBCO’s Geering Up Engineering & Science for Kid’s summer camps are back in Kelowna to offer interactive science, technology, engineering and math (S.T.E.M.) programming.
The success of Geering Up’s 2016 season and increased support from UBCO means that more than 3,000 students in the Okanagan will get hands-on opportunities in S.T.E.M. through in school workshops and day camps.
Geering Up UBC Engineering & Science for Kids is a non-profit, student-run organization dedicated to promoting science, engineering and technology to the children and youth of British Columbia through fun, innovative and hands-on experiments and projects.
“We have an amazing summer of camps lined up with lab tours, robot builds, building design challenges, and biology and chemistry experiments,” says co-director Jenna Hutchen.
The instructors at Geering Up are current UBC students with diverse backgrounds in science and engineering, but all have a passion for inspiring youth. Geering Up also engages high school students and 1st-year university students as volunteers to expose teens to the opportunities in S.T.E.M. studies and outreach at UBCO.
New camps offered for 2017 include S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math), a camp where kids explore how art and design interweave with the science and engineering in our day-to-day life.
Camps run from July 10 to August 24 at the UBC-O campus. For more information, visit the Geering Up website.
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