Summer Camps & STEM Education

Summer Camps

Space the Final Frontier

Are you ready for an intense hands-on challenge to design, build, and fly a small satellite? S&T’s Space the Final Frontier Camp is unlike anything you have ever experienced. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to encounter the edge of outer space.
Your math and science skills will be used to design and construct a small spacecraft to be launched on a high-altitude balloon to 100,000 feet. Throughout the week, instruction will include satellite building and testing, laboratory tours, and interviews with aerospace engineering faculty and students.
The camp will conclude with a high-altitude balloon launch, during which you’ll track your satellite as it travels to the edge of space. After the satellites are recovered, you will receive images and data captured by your satellite from the edge of space that have never been seen before!

Photo Tom Wagner/Missouri S&T, ©2019 Missouri S&T, Headshots 2019, Space – The Final Frontier – Led by Dr. Henry Pernicka of S&T. Coverage of the launching of high altitude balloon as part of the Space, the Final Frontier camp. Rising high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors will learn hands-on how engineers design and build satellites, then launch a micro-satellite 100,000 feet in the air. Your math and science skills will be used to design and construct a small spacecraft (with a camera on-board) that is then launched on a high altitude balloon to 100,000 feet. Throughout the week, you will learn about spacecraft design, high altitude balloons and teamwork through various challenges and activities. Toward the end of camp, you will become a “storm chaser” as you track and recover your balloon satellite from its flight. Upon successful completion of the camp, you will take home images captured by your satellite from the edge of space. Dr. Henry Pernicka, Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Dean’s Educator Scholar; Jill Davis ©2019 Missouri S&T, all right reserved, all moral rights asserted
Photo Tom Wagner/Missouri S&T, ©2019 Missouri S&T, Headshots 2019, Space – The Final Frontier – Led by Dr. Henry Pernicka of S&T. Coverage of the launching of high altitude balloon as part of the Space, the Final Frontier camp. Rising high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors will learn hands-on how engineers design and build satellites, then launch a micro-satellite 100,000 feet in the air. Your math and science skills will be used to design and construct a small spacecraft (with a camera on-board) that is then launched on a high altitude balloon to 100,000 feet. Throughout the week, you will learn about spacecraft design, high altitude balloons and teamwork through various challenges and activities. Toward the end of camp, you will become a “storm chaser” as you track and recover your balloon satellite from its flight. Upon successful completion of the camp, you will take home images captured by your satellite from the edge of space. Dr. Henry Pernicka, Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Dean’s Educator Scholar; Jill Davis ©2019 Missouri S&T, all right reserved, all moral rights asserted
Photo Tom Wagner/Missouri S&T, ©2019 Missouri S&T, Headshots 2019, Space – The Final Frontier – Led by Dr. Henry Pernicka of S&T. Coverage of the launching of high altitude balloon as part of the Space, the Final Frontier camp. Rising high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors will learn hands-on how engineers design and build satellites, then launch a micro-satellite 100,000 feet in the air. Your math and science skills will be used to design and construct a small spacecraft (with a camera on-board) that is then launched on a high altitude balloon to 100,000 feet. Throughout the week, you will learn about spacecraft design, high altitude balloons and teamwork through various challenges and activities. Toward the end of camp, you will become a “storm chaser” as you track and recover your balloon satellite from its flight. Upon successful completion of the camp, you will take home images captured by your satellite from the edge of space. Dr. Henry Pernicka, Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Dean’s Educator Scholar; Jill Davis ©2019 Missouri S&T, all right reserved, all moral rights asserted
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Mechanical Crash Course

Have you ever wondered how everyday products are designed? Are you interested in making smart devices and products? Then the mechanical crash course is the camp for you. You will design an autonomous product with high school math and science knowledge. You will see a product’s design cycle, from project definition to test.
This year’s project will be the Design of an Autonomous vehicle to navigate an obstacle course and perform tasks along the obstacle course.

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Jackling Introduction to Engineering – Mechanical

Jackling Introduction to Engineering – Aerospace

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