This free, week-long program offers high school students a unique opportunity to work hands-on with high-tech equipment and professional "Materials Mentors" from leading companies.
The UW ASM Materials Camp is a materials science-based summer day camp for high school students entering their junior year. The camp offers a combination of mini-demonstrations and field trips, with extensive hands-on involvement in laboratories and facilities. Students actively explore materials science, engineering, and biology principles using various instruments, applying core principles of applied math, physics, and chemistry. The program culminates in a team-based, intensive problem-solving science experience under the guidance of "Materials Mentors," who are world-class engineers and researchers from local companies like Boeing and Boston Scientific. Students will have the opportunity to observe structures on the nanoscale with the UW Material Science & Engineering department's state-of-the-art Scanning Electron Microscope. The camp aims to provide an exciting and educational experience, allowing students to look at how materials perform by bending, stretching, and crushing them, and to understand how different materials are made and formed. The final day includes formal presentations by students and a graduation ceremony.
A typical day involves a combination of mini-demonstrations, field trips, and extensive hands-on laboratory work, applying principles of math, physics, and chemistry. Students will work with instruments and collaborate with "Materials Mentors" on problem-solving activities.
This camp is ideal for high school sophomores (10th grade) in the greater Seattle area who are interested in actively exploring materials science, engineering, physics, chemistry, applied math, and biology principles, and who may be considering engineering and materials science as a college major and career.
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