ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE CAMP (E - CAMP)

SPONSORED BY VMI RESEARCH LABORATORIES

6th ANNUAL CAMP
July 5-11, 2004
VMI CAMPUS
LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA

DESIGNED FOR RISING 9TH AND 10TH GRADE BOYS AND GIRLS

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Dr. Minnix setting up to launch a hot air balloon

 Engineering Camp is designed to be a fun-filled and exciting way to learn about the many career opportunities that exist in the broad world of engineering and the physical sciences. The campers will use design projects, computers, field trips, and demonstrations, to accomplish this goal.

E-Camp is sponsored by the Virginia Military Institute Research Laboratories (VMIRL) in an effort to advance the educational and career opportunities offered to our young adults. VMIRL is a registered corporation with the State of Virginia.

Campers live in the VMI barracks and eat in the VMI Dining Hall.

ACTIVITIES

Each camper participates in numerous science, engineering design, and cultural activities. Field trips to local plants are also conducted. A list of the activities and tours performed during the previous camps are as follows:

  • Fun with Physics Demonstration
  • Design and Construct Hot Air Balloons out of Tissue Paper (approximately 8 ft. tall)
  • Chemical Analysis Lab to determine unknown substances in a liquid
  • Physics Laboratory Experiments
  • Robot Building and Programming
  • Bridge Design and Construction
  • Circuit Board Design and Construction
  • Soldering components onto a circuit board to build a tic-tac-toe game
  • Computer Session on Internet Search techniques
  • Trip to Natural Bridge Caverns
  • Launch objects with a trebuchet
  • Construct and launch model rockets
  • Attend a theatrical production at Lime Kiln Theater
  • Hay Ride at the Virginia Safari
  • Bath County Pumped Storage Facility Tour (Virginia Power) (1998)
  • Big Island Paper Mill Tour (Georgia Pacific) (1998)
  • Framatome Nuclear Technologies Tour (1998,2000,2001,2002)
  • DuPont Waynesboro Plant Tour (1999)
  • Des Champs Laboratories Tour (1999,2001)
  • Roanoke Cement Tour (2001,2002)

    

COUNSELORS and Staff                       

Camp Staff includes VMI Faculty and Staff:

  • CAPT Ned Riester, Ph.D., PE, VMI CEE Department, (Director)
  • LTC Shawn Addington, Ph.D., PE, VMI Electrical Engineering Department
  • COL Howard Arthur, Ph.D., PE, VMI Mechanical Engineering Department
  • COL Richard Minnix, Ph.D., VMI Physics Department
  • COL Grigg Mullen, Ph.D., PE, VMI Civil Engineering Department
  • COL John Page, Ph.D., PE, VMI Civil Engineering Department
  • COL Vonda Walsh, Ph.D., VMI Mathematics Department
  • MAJ Judith Cain, Ph.D., VMI Chemistry Department
  • Mr. David Allen, MS, VMI Physics and Astronomy Department
  • SGT MAJ Alvin Hockaday, USMC Ret, VMI Commandant's Staff
  • Mrs. Delia Hoeffel, VMI Conference Office

Camp Counselors are VMI cadets and other college students

TAKE A LOOK AT OUR ENGINEERING CAMP PICTURES FROM :

If you are planning a trip and would like to know of the engineering sights along the route, check out the ENGINEERING TRIP PLANNER

For more information contact: THE VMI CONFERENCE OFFICE
(540) 464 -7740
or E-mail: hoeffeldw@mail.vmi.edu


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