CREST STEM Camp and CCBM Virtual Sessions (2022 & 2023)
https://calteach.ucmerced.edu/CCBM-2023
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CREST STEM Camp
Students who have complete grades 3 - 4
- no cost to register -
Engineering, biological science, physics, chemistry and computational science are the focus of the National Science Foundation-funded CREST center’s research and education mission. In this camp, students will actively participate in stimulating hands-on activities and projects, lectures, discussions, campus tours, lab tours and interactions with scientists and engineers. This summer camp will increase students’ exposure to stimulating STEM topics, the practice of STEM and how STEM benefits society.
Monday, July 8
9:00 am - 10:00 am, SE 1, 160 Introduction: Carrie Kouadio and Asmaa Mohamed
10:15 am - 11:15 am, SE 1, 160 Nature of Science / Activities: Ajay Gopinathan
11:30 am - 12:00 pm, SE 1, 160 Biomimicry / Foldscopes: Asmaa Mohamed
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm, Lunch, SE 1, 298
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm, Playtime, Quad and outside SE 1, 160
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm, SE 1, 160 Biomimicry / Foldscopes: Asmaa Mohamed
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, SE 1, 160 Crystals Demos: Asmaa Mohamed / Liu Lab Activites: Pooja Chopra, Jeremias Gonzalez, Bin Liu
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm, SE 1, 160 Make Slime: Guadalupe Covarrubias-Oregel
Tuesday, July 9
9:00 am - 12:00 pm, Merced Vernal Pool and Grassland Reserve Tour: Dr. Monique Kolster
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm, Lunch, COB 2, 290
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm, Playtime, Quad and outside SE 1, 160
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm, SE 1, 160 Biomimicry / Foldscopes Continued: Asmaa Mohamed
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm, SE 1, 160 Heat and Liquids/Solids: Sandra Duran-Robles
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm, SE 1, 160 Campus Facilities Tour: James Brugger
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm, Parents pick up in SE 1, 160
Wednesday, July 10
9:00 am - 11:00 am, SE 1, 160 / outside / COB 281 (computer lab) Flocking, Ajay Gopinathan
11:15 am - 12:00 pm, SE 1, 160 Make a Flashlight, Asmaa Mohamed
12:00 - 12:30 pm, Lunch, SE 2, 224
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm, SE 1, 160 Playtime, Quad and outside
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, Baxter Group Lab Activities: Alyssa Hua, Jordan Galloway, Sarah Baker / Foldscopes, Asmaa Mohamed
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm, SE 1, 160 Plants Session / Jackie Shay and Jorge Armando Montiel Molina
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm, Parents pick up in SE 1, 160
Thursday, July 11
9:00 am - 12:15 pm, SE 1, 160 / KL 202) Stations of Light / Moon Craters: Sayantani Ghosh
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm, Lunch and Playtime, Quad / outside SE 1, 160
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm, SE 1, 160 Make Solar Ovens / S’mores, Joel Heisler
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm, SE 1, 160 Owl Pellet Dissection, Sandra Duran-Robles and Asmaa Mohamed
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, SE 1, 160 Make Oobleck, Asmaa Mohamed
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm, Parents pick up in SE 1, 160
Friday, July 12
9:15 am - 10:45 am, Lab Tours (Miriam Barlow Lab/Candace Cole and WAVE/Fisher Dietz)
11:00 am - 11:45 am, SE 1, 160 Physics / Sound / Make a Telephone, Guadalupe Covarrubias-Oregel
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm, Lunch, SE 1, 298
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm, Playtime, Quad / outside SE 1, 160
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm, SE 1, 160 Chemistry Session, Carrie Kouadio
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm, SE 1, 160 Nature of Science, Ajay Gopinathan
2:30 pm - 2:40 pm, SE 1, 160 STEM Careers, Asmaa Mohamed
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm, SE 1, 160 Make Ice Cream with Rock Salt/Ice, Sandra Duran-Robles
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm, SE 1, 160 Discussion and Evaluation, Asmaa Mohamed
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm, Parents pick up in SE 1, 160
