Celebrate - Ability and advancement in STEM
Offering two programs for high school students:
Applied STEM foundations: focusing on Engineering, Digital Media and Computing concepts
(3 -weeks, limited to 100 participants, Cost - $25, lunch included)
June 3 - 21, 2024, enroll by May 15th to secure your spot
Environment Health Lab Experience: explore concepts in environmental and occupational
health and safety science
(1 Week, 25 participants, Cost - $25, lunch included)
June 3 – 7, 2024
Applied STEM Foundations - 3 Weeks
Applied STEM foundation is a 3-week experiential program that covers, computing, digital media, engineering, and other STEM concepts. The program is for high school students interested in a STEM major. Each week students will be given the opportunity to explore areas and careers in STEM through the use of classroom lectures, hands-on experiences various, field trips, and speaker presentations.
Applied STEM Foundations aims to deepen the understanding of STEM by utilizing practical applications and classroom presentations to increase awareness and participation within the field. The program aims to help students explore issues common to STEM with a focus on project-based time management, logic and condition statements, terminology used in STEM, engineering concepts, digital design and development, and career exploration. The program places emphasis on exposure to technological concepts, idea development, and skills that support success within a STEM major using an experiential model. Students may have the opportunity to earn college credit
Program Objectives
- Facilitate students' understanding of the skills needed to succeed in a STEM major.
- Promote student exploration of STEM concepts, careers, and major development in STEM.
- Facilitate students working collaboratively in diverse teams, valuing and leveraging individual strengths to achieve common goals.
- Help students develop personal and professional goals, identifying potential career paths within STEM and mapping out steps to achieve them.
Why Attend
- Structured intense program that allows students to sample college curriculum to find their passion
- Work with cutting-edge technology and high-end equipment
- Good for resume and college applications
- Work with faculty mentors (Computing, Digital Media, and Engineering Technology) 1 week with each area
- Hands-on STEM activities that may result in a capstone presentation
- Bridges the arts and sciences together with technical knowledge
- Opportunity to earn college credit for those who qualify
Environmental Health Lab Experience - 1 Week.
Students will work with two of the department's outstanding faculty to explore concepts in environmental and occupational health and safety science.
- Well water simulation and stream water sampling and characterization
- Measurement of indoor air quality
- Other hands-on activity in the lab
- Learn how environmental health impacts what we eat and drink
Environmental health (EH) is a branch of public health protection that is concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment that may affect human health.EH professionals are best known for their efforts to ensure the safety of what we eat, breathe, touch and drink.
Phillip Scheuerman, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Sciences
Director, Environmental Health Sciences Laboratory
Rod Handy, MBA, PhD, CIH,
Department Chair
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Sciences
Enrollment Criteria for Summer Institute
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- Willingness to participate and open to learning in an academic setting
- Must be a current High School student
- Cost $25
- Lunch provided
For more information contact Dr. Evelyn Roach roache@etsu.edu 423-423-6861