Bioscience Exploration for Middle Schoolers
Program Description
RIT's campus, with it expansive natural environment and modern high-tech laboratories, will be the site for three exciting and fun-filled weeks of Bioscience Exploration for students entering grades 6 - 8. During each one-week camp session participants will learn to see the natural world the way biologist see it, by using both traditional and modern experimental approaches.
Week 1: Living Things from Macroscopic to Microscopic
July 14 to July 18
Campers will participate in a variety of field, laboratory and computer investigations designed to engage both their bodies and their minds. From DNA to ecosystems, we will use the techniques of a biologist to learn about the natural world and to have fun in the process. This camp is the perfect opportunity for youths interested in biology to have access to RIT's natural environment and world class laboratories and faculty.
Week 2: Out There and Under Here
July 21 to July 25
The campus will be our ecosystem as we investigate the plants, and animals and their relationship to each other. The diverse natural and laboratory environments of the RIT campus will be available to students who wish to use the techniques of the Biologist to learn more about the living world around them.
Week 3: Cells and Gels
July 28 to August 1
RIT is at the forefront of biotechnology research. Campers will take advantage of the resources available on the RIT campus to explore, through inquiry driven activities, what a cell is and how scientists conduct experiments to understand how cells function and what goes wrong when we get sick.