Check out the 2022 summer residential camp options!
Biotechnology and Public Health – Summer Scholars
Rising 9th-12th grade
Dates: June 12-18 / July 10-16 / July 24-30
Cost: $1,200
- Analyze DNA and correlate the results with how certain foods taste
- Analyze family histories and genetics for opioid dependency
- Investigate the need for clean drinking water
- Learn about immunity, vaccine production, antibody tests, and antibiotic resistance
- Discover how injury and disease can wreak havoc on our brains
- Transform bacteria and discuss CRISPR technology
- Tour research labs, learn from guest speakers, and participate in design challenges
Please Register on Summer Scholars Website
Space Cadets – Clemson Camp at PARI
Age:11-14
Date: June 26 – July 2
Cost: $1,700
- Use spectroscopy to uncover invisible space rainbows
- Discover what interstellar space smells like
- Eat and exercise like an astronaut
- Use giant radio telescopes to make images of the sun & collaborate with fellow space cadets to produce a movie of the sun in radio images
- Conduct investigations to distinguish real meteorites from imposters (bring the real meteorite home!)
- Can you build a black hole? Construct a model to simulate gravity
- Build a rocket, blast it off, observe, learn, repeat. Engage in team competitions for the highest, most powerful rockets with the biggest boom
- Design & build parachutes to protect marshmallow astronauts from a great fall
- Build your own robot & lead PARI’s fleet through a Mars-like obstacle course
Please Register on PARI’s Website
Milky Way Trailblazers – Clemson Camp at PARI
Age: 14-17
Date: July 17 – 30
Cost: $3,960
- Investigate the composition & motion of our galaxy with giant radio telescopes
- Create images with radio data to plot a path through the Milky Way for future explorers
- Collaborate with fellow cartographers to complete your trailblazing mission
- Conduct individual research on techniques used to communicate with space mission
– Propose your own communication techniques for future missions - Build a rocket, blast it off, observe, learn, repeat. Engage in team competitions for the highest, most powerful rockets with the biggest boom
- How do you move when you have no fuel? You build a mass driver
– Team investigations to explore variables that impact accuracy, force, and destructive power of projectiles - Design and test safe landing crafts for future space missions
Please Register on PARI’s Website
2022 Summer Residential Camp Schedule
Month | Week | Summer Scholars | Clemson PARI |
June | 12-18 | Biotechnology & Public Health | |
26-2 | Space Cadets | ||
July | 10-16 | Biotechnology & Public Health | |
17-22 | Milky Way Trailblazers | ||
24-30 | Biotechnology & Public Health |