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Workshop I (8:30 AM-10:00 AM)
A. Mini-Medical School - Team & Extreme Sports
Spend a week as a doctor! Learn about sports injuries, sports medicine and how doctors are trained to work with athletes. You’ll do fun activities exploring team sports and extreme sports and you’ll learn about how the human body is capable of its amazing activities.
Lab Fee: $15 / Max: 16
-Dr. Milica Livesay, Doctor of Physical Therapy, Lone Peak Physical Therapy,
Bozeman
Location: 113 Linfield Hall
B. Learn Design & Make Your
Own Clothes!
Learn how to use your body measurements to construct a pattern and sew a piece of clothing. You’ll learn about the pattern making process, how to lay out patterns and how to sew patterns. You will also be able to tell if clothing fits properly and how to fix it if it doesn’t.
Lab Fee: $15 / Max: 16
-Laura Harne, BS, Apparel and Textiles, Local Tailor/Seamstress/Entrepreneur
Location: 306 Lewis Hall
C. Why + How = WOW
Lab Fee: TBA / Max: 16
Location: 105 Chemistry Modular South
D. A Bug’s World
Come learn about the exciting world of bugs! You’ll have lots of hands-on activities and learn all about mosquitos and disease, livestock entomology, beetles, butterflies and bees, and the flies commonly used in fly fishing.
Lab Fee: $15 / Max: 16
-Kristina Hale, Graduate Student, MSU Department of Animal and Range Sciences & April
Pearce, Graduate Student, MSU Department of Land Resources and Environmental
Sciences
Location: 214 Plant Growth Center
E. Launch and Fly a Real
Weather Balloon!
Come an learn about electronics, the atmosphere, weather and much more! You will assemble and fly a real weather balloon and specific activities will include soldering a circuit board, learning about the atmosphere and weather, and conducting multiple weather balloon flights.
Lab Fee: $15 / Max: 16
-John Bognar, President & Janet Lynch, Research Scientist, Ananspere, Inc.,
Bozeman
Location: 228 EPS Building
Workshop II (10:20 AM-11:50 AM)
F. Spaghetti Spans
You’ve seen bridges made of concrete and steel, but have you seen bridges made of spaghetti? Come and learn about the mechanics and design of bridges and design and build your own bridge from glue and spaghetti. The last day, you’ll see whose design can take the most stress and last the longest.
Lab Fee: $15 / Max: 16
-Craig Harne, Student Manager, Physics Engineering Design Lab, MSU Pysics
Department
Location: 306 Lewis Hall
G. Introduction to Sign
Language
Learn the basics of sign language (Signing Exact English or S.E.E.) and about issues concerning the deaf. You’ll discuss the many uses for sign language (like talking when you aren’t supposed to!) and you’ll practice your new signing skills with finger spelling and sign language games, and by learning to sign along with your favorite songs.
Lab Fee: $3 / Max: 16
-Linda Zupan, Sign Language Instructor, Wilsall
Location: 1-125 Wilson
H. Introduction to Robotics
Learn how to make your own robots, tell them what to do, and see them obey your every whim! Do you think you have what it takes to do this? Then come and give it a try! Have a friendly competition with your buddies to see whose robot does best at solving various challenges - or build your own faithful sidekick to help you along. Anything goes! (After you learn the ropes, that is.)
Lab Fee: $2 / Max: 16
-Alexander Dimitrov, Assistant Professor, MSU Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Location: 127 AJM Johnson
I. Be A Multimedia Journalist
Do you like to take photos or shoot video? Maybe you enjoy writing stories or watching multimedia on sites like YouTube or MySpace? If so, this workshop is for you! You’ll be a roving Peaks reporter, covering all the camp action in video, audio, digital pictures and interviews. You’ll make multimedia news packages to share with the whole group, and also create an interactive multimedia exhibit that everyone can experience on a 65” plasma touch screen. You’ll work hard but have a lot of fun as a multimedia journalist!
Lab Fee: $15 / Max: 16
-Suzi Taylor, Communications Director, MSU Extended University-Burns Technology Center
Location: 127 EPS Building
J. Fun With Metal
Ever wonder how jewelry is made? Do you love to make art? In this workshop you’ll get to use your hands and minds to learn some basic metalsmithing and design techniques. You will make rings, pins, small sculptures, and more throughout the week. Have fun and make something you’ll be proud to wear!
Lab Fee: $15 / Max: 16
-April Hale, Graduate Student, MSU School of Art
Location: 228 Haynes Hall
Workshop III (1:15 PM-2:45 PM)
K. Water World
Water is our most precious resource - but what do we know about it? You’ll begin with experiments that test physical properties of water, and then discover where groundwater comes from, how wells work and where water goes when we flush the toilet. You’ll head out to a local stream to learn how to measure water quality using the same methods as the professionals. Prepare to get wet as you dive into the world of water!
Lab Fee: $2 / Max: 16
-Erin Lynch, Montana Outdoor Science School, Bozeman
Location: 1-153 Wilson Hall
L. Things That Matter
Put on your lab coats and get ready for a big bang! You will be in the lab doing all kinds of experiments and observing the states of matter and all their fascinating chemical reactions.
Lab Fee: $15 / Max: 16
Lena Petersen, Undergraduate Student. MSU Department of Chemistry and Biochemisty & MSU Department of Health and Human Development
Location: 201 Lewis Hall
M. A Week at the Museum
Lab Fee: TBA / Max: 16
Various Locations (meet at North Hedges each day)
N. Be a Knit-Wit!
Knitting is no longer your Grandma’s craft - it is one of the hottest forms of textile making today! You’ll learn how to cast on, knit, purl and bind off. In one week you will create a beautiful hand-made scarf and you have the skills to make many more!
Lab Fee: $15 / Max: 16
-Nicole Ross, Licensed K-8 Teacher and Knitting Enthusiast
Location: 1-139 Wilson
O. Explosions in the Sky!
Learn what happens when stars explode! You will explore the conditions that cause some stars to go boom and some to just fizzle. You will also see all the new ways to “see” the explosions!
Lab Fee: $5 / Max: 16
--Adam Kobelski, Space Public Outreach Team, MSU Physics Department
Location: 121 AJM Johnson
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