Environmental Engineering and Sustainability Track Offered at G.A.M.E.S. Summer Camp
1/17/2014
High school girls to explore sustainable solutions to environmental and energy challenges through classroom and hands-on learning.
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The upcoming Girls’ Adventures in Mathematics, Engineering, and Science (G.A.M.E.S.) summer camp is once again offering a track focusing on Environmental Engineering and Sustainability. The week long camp (July 13-19, 2014) is designed to give high school girls an opportunity to explore exciting math, engineering, and science through demonstrations, classroom presentations, hands-on activities, and contacts with women in technical fields.
The Environmental Engineering and Sustainability track focuses on designing sustainable technological solutions for critical environmental and energy challenges of the 21st Century. Through a series of team activities, lab exercises, and field trips campers will have the opportunity to learn about:
Sustainability and how the environment, culture, society, and economics are all linked
Environmental pollutants and the cycles they follow as they move through the air, water and soil
Climate change
Renewable energy sources and energy efficiency
Water resources and clean water technologies
Air quality management
What environmental engineers do to help protect human health and the planet
More information about the camp and applications for summer 2014 can be found on the College of Engineering’s G.A.M.E.S. camp website. An article about the 2013 Environmental Engineering and Sustainability camp track is available here.