S(TEAM)² Summer Academy for Middle & High School Students

(entering 6^th through 8^th and entering 9 through 12^th grades)

Description: The STEAM Team Summer Academy is a week-long program for middle and high school students (in separate groups) focused on holistic academic enrichment. Through hands-on learning in engineering, arts and mathematics, students will engage their creativity, enhance problem solving skills, and develop mathematical questioning, communication and critical thinking skills. The goal of this week is to provide a fun and enriching experience that increases students’ STEAM literacy, and enthusiasm about further education opportunities and careers in STEAM fields.

Summer Academy

During the weeklong experience students will:

• Explore mathematical concepts and engineering design principles, and the relationships between them, through designing and building complex chain reaction machines, robotic devices, and origami designs and drawing;
• Engage their curiosity through the development and exploration of their own questions;
• Develop critical mathematics skills and understanding.
• Participate in fun character and team-building through fitness and theatre activities;
• Learn about people and careers in STEAM through carefully-selected readings and re-enactments highlighting the experiences and trajectories of women and minorities in the STEAM fields;
• Engage in daily personal and academic goal-setting sessions and learn how to use the middle and high school years to prepare for college and careers.

Enrolled students will be taught by University of San Diego faculty, students and alumni from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, the School of Leadership and Education Sciences, and the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering.

Orientation

The academy will begin with a 2-hour pre-camp orientation and campus tour on Sunday for the middle and high school students and their parents. The pre-camp orientation will include an orientation for the students and their parents and a discussion of the expectations and an opportunity for the middle and high school students to get acquainted with each other and participate in their first team-building activities together.

Learner Outcomes

• Recognize engineering design principles and develop increased engineering confidence, interest, and knowledge;
• Apply critical mathematics skills and develop increased mathematics confidence, interest and knowledge;
• Improve problem solving, communications and critical thinking skills;
• Improve leadership and goal-setting skills
• Recognize how to use the middle and high school years wisely to prepare for college and careers;
• Increase exposure to the university/college campus and faculty and students
• Recognize that failure is a natural, worthwhile part of the learning process, and develop perseverance.
• Develop the Common Core Mathematical Practices and integrate them into the engineering work.
• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
• Reason abstractly and quantitatively
• Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
• Model with mathematics.
• Use appropriate tools strategically.
• Attend to precision.
• Look for and make use of structure.
• Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Program Details

Dates and Times:

Monday, August 8^th - Friday, August 12^th

9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.;

Lunch & snacks will be provided daily.

Pre-orientation for students and families:

Sunday, August 7^th, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Community Conference and student presentations

Saturday, August 13^th, 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Location: University of San Diego Campus, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 92110

Drop Off: Loma Hall (8:45-9:00 a.m.)

Pick-Up: Mother Rosalie Hill Hall (SOLES) (3:45-4:00 p.m.)

Who Should Attend: This workshop is designed for incoming 6^th – 12^th graders with an interest in exploring engineering, arts, or mathematics, and a desire to better understand how all these areas can be applied together to produce innovative and artistic creations.

Program Directors: The STEAM Team Summer Academy is run by a team of three University of San Diego Faculty- Odesma Dalrymple, Perla Myers, and Joi Spencer. Dalrymple, Myers and Spencer are accomplished educators with expertise in STEAM instruction across the K-16 pipeline. In addition to providing the conceptual development of the STEAM Team Summer Academy, they serve as lead instructors for the engineering and mathematics learning experiences at the camp. Dalrymple, Myers, and Spencer coordinate all aspects of the Academy including the selection, hiring and supervision of instructors and student-assistants, and the coordination of the camp schedule and activities.

Course Fee: $375.00

To register for this camp, please fill out the two forms (form1 and form2), sign them, and mail them with your check (payable to University of San Diego) to:

Tina Manabat
Mathematics Department

University of San Diego

5998 Alcalá Park

San Diego, CA 92110

A 10% discount is available for USD Employees. For enrollment questions, please email or call Tina Manabat at tmanabat@sandiego.edu; (619) 260-6725. Space is limited.

Learn More: If you have questions regarding this summer program, please contact Joi Spencer joi.spencer@sandiego.edu, Odesma Dalrymple odesma@sandiego.edu, or Perla Myers pmyers@sandiego.edu.

The S(TEAM)² Summer Academy is a collaboration of University of San Diego faculty from the School of Leadership and Education Sciences, the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, and the College of Arts and Sciences (Department of Mathematics).