Online STEM - 2021 Summer Camp - Details
-All camps require the following: a computer w/ high speed internet, a unique email address w/ access to google classroom (will be emailed instructions for access), video conferencing capabilities for Zoom meetings.
-Students will receive a kit with all of the supplies and equipment needed to participate in their course a few days before the camp begins. Please have your student wait to open the package until the first day of the course.
Register for Summer STEM Camp at: cetrain.isu.edu/summerstem/
Camp Details
Sound, Waves, and Music (5th-8th Grade)
Learn about the science of sound, waves, and music. Build wave machines and a variety of noisy but somewhat musical devices. Design and build your own musical instrument.
Supplies Students Keep:
-List Coming Soon!
Webcam Required: Yes
EVO Ozobots (5th-8th Grade)
Learn to code your own pocket sized robot. Program your EVO Ozobot to complete obstacle courses, follow color coded lines, and other fun activities. This is a great course to learn the introductory fundamentals of coding.
Supplies Students Keep:
Kit comes with your very own Ozobot, an Evo App-Connected Coding Robot and everything you need to code and command.
Additional Requirements:
-iOS 7.0 1GB RAM (iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch) or Android 6.0, 2GB RAM
-Bluetooth 4.0
Magnetism, Motors, Generators, and Speakers, Oh My! (9th-12th Grade)
Learn about the connections between magnetism and electricity by building your own electromagnets, motors, and speakers. There will be lots of cool demonstrations and sparks will fly!
Supplies Students Keep:
-List Coming Soon!
Webcam Required: Yes
Bluetooth Speaker Electronics Kit (9th-12th Grade)
Students will learn the fundamentals of electronic circuits and how to build them. Students will spend 7 hours learning how electronic circuits work and then approximately 3 hours building their own bluetooth speaker. Students will get to keep their soldering kit, bluetooth speaker, electronic components and web camera. Warning: Hot Surface and Sharp/Pointed Objects
Supplies Students Keep:
-Everything you need to build your very own portable Bluetooth speaker
-Electronics kit with Breadboard, Power Supply, Jumper Wires, Resistors, LED, Compatible with Arduino R3, Mega2560, Nano, Raspberry Pi
-Soldering kit with Iron, 60W Adjustable Temperature Welding Tool, 5pcs Soldering Tips, Desoldering Pump, Soldering Iron Stand, Tweezers
Webcam: Yes
Additional Requirements: Computer with USB capabilities
Intro to Python Programming (9th-12th Grade)
What is a hobby that can lead to a career that is well-paid, in high-demand, family-friendly, and reports high levels of fun and job satisfaction? Sound too good to be true? Computer programming checks all the boxes! In this summer camp strand, Dr. Paul Bodily, professor of Computer Science at Idaho State University, will let you see this all for yourself as he teaches you the basic skills of computer programming needed to build your own Choose-Your-Own-Adventure game, all in the easiest, most popular, most in-demand programming language—Python!
Supplies Students Keep:
-Python Programming Book
-Resources and other fun goodies
Webcam: Yes
Additional Requirements:
- Spiral-bound hard copy packet of https://www2.cose.isu.edu/~bodipaul/outreach/pythonIntro/guided_notes.pdf
- Download Python 3 (https://www.python.org/downloads/) and the Community version of PyCharm (https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/)
- Checkout online, interactive, free textbook (https://runestone.academy/runestone/static/thinkcspy/index.html) which will be used for homework assignments and a helpful resource for continuing your learning after the camp is over
- Checkout course website: https://www2.cose.isu.edu/~bodipaul/outreach/pythonIntro/