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Biotechnology Lab
This new Fischer Scientific Biotechnology Lab at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History features advanced technology and programs to develop a middle school student's curiousity about biotechnology. The lab is equipped for experiments in DNA manipulation, electrophoresis, and microbiology.
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Professional Development & Course Integration Grants - topic the environment
The National High School Challenge provides teachers with an opportunity to secure as much as $5,000 to $10,000 in funding to bring innovative environmental themes into students’ coursework and incorporate more environmental education into teaching overall!
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| July '08 |
Registration for the United Nations Foundation Youth Leadership Summit in New York City this July
Want to get your students involved in a truly global debate on some of the most important issues facing the US and the world today?
Check this out!
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| Other Great Sites!
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| Ongoing |
A Really Good Site for Your Girls!
BRAINCAKE - Girls connect with the people and opportunities that can make their dreams happen. Whether they're looking for advice, ideas about a career, games to play or somewhere new to hang out with their friends, it's all here.
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Girls - Set Your Sights on Math, Science and Technology!
Careers, resources, games...
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| Tours
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| Ongoing |
NETL Pittsburgh Site Tours
NETL conducts tours of the Morgantown and Pittsburgh research facilities (and the Pittsburgh coal mine) for groups of up to 30. Tours are offered to students, academia, industry, foreign visitors, Congressional staff, and any person or group desiring a tour. Tours can be tailored to the visiting group -- administrative, general, or more technical -- possibly emphasizing a particular fossil fuel technology. Presentations on solving national energy and environmental problems are also available.
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| Camps
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| Year Round |
One-day Nanotech Camps
One-day Nanotech Camps for high school students are offered year round by appointment. These camps include an overview of nanotechnology and a tour of the Penn State Nanofabrication Facility.
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| June 16-20 |
Biotechnology and Boats: Exercise Your Mind and Body
For high school students -
imagine this: Each morning, you'll learn about biotechnology with lots of cool hands-on activities and experiments. And each afternoon, you'll learn about rowing with lots of cool hands-on practice on the Allegheny River.
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| Summer 2008 |
Do you have what it takes to be a CLICK! girl?
Click! is an urban adventure program for middle school girls. It is the first program of its type – part Charlie’s Angels, part Real World. Click! uses specialized tablet computer interfaces, location-aware mobile devices, and digital documentation to engage girls in a six-day camp. After five days of training, Click! girls have an all-day Saturday adventure at Carnegie Science Center that, if successful, will earn them a new status level in the Click! agency.
Click! Level 1: The Click! Level 1 Case is a biomedical mystery awaits involving one of the Pittsburgh Steelers. (Ages 10-12)
Click! Level 2: The Click! Level 2 Case is an environmental mystery that explores Pittsburgh's three rivers. (Ages 12-14)
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| June 22-28 |
Computer Mapping Technology Summer Camp
Summer camp at Washington College, MD, for 7th-12th graders inerested in learning about computer mapping technology, also known as geographic information systems (GIS). Scholarships are available.
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| June 2008 |
Engineering and Biotechnology Camp
High School students - Would you like to design a new bridge to stretch across the Allegheny River? Build a fuel cell car? Learn how chemicals are used to cure deadly diseases? Discover how to assemble a robot? In this hands-on class, you'll do all that and more as you learn how engineering and biotechnology can transform the world.
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| Summer 2007 |
Camps: Forensics, Robotics and More!!
When school is out, the Science Center is in! (Ages 10-12)
NEW - - Awesome Astronomy, Invention Challenge, Out and About, Everything Environmental, Game Time
Returning favorites - - Crack the Case, Explore Pittsburgh, Kennywood Science, River Expolration, Science Scrubs
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| June16-20 |
Environmental Science and Rowing: Exercise Your Mind and Body
High School Students -
In the morning, you'll exercise your brain as you learn about issues facing environmental scientists such as water quality, soil science, and forestry.
In the afternoon, it's off to the Steel City Rowing Club where you'll exercise your body as you learn the finer points of rowing.
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National High School Game Academy (NHSGA) is an intensive study of video game design/development
This program includes an exciting blend of hands-on exercises combined with traditional lecture and discussion. Modeled after Carnegie Mellon's graduate program in Entertainment Technology and corporate sponsored by Electronic Arts, the NHSGA is structured to give students a taste of the current state of video game development and guidance towards embarking on their own career in the video game industry.
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| Summer 2008 |
Robotics Camp 2008
A collaboration between Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Academy and the Sarah Heinz House Boys
and Girls Club located at One Heinz Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15212. (Grades 6-8)
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| Summer 2008 |
Nanotech Camps
Three-day nanotech camps for high school students in Pennsylvania. These nanotech camps provide an orientation to basic nanofabrication processes and applications, and the opportunity to observe these same processes in the Penn State Nanofabrication Facility.
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| July 2008 |
Middle School Summer Camp - Biotech
Hands-on camp for students in grades 6, 7 and 8 involves classroom activities and experiments to help them learn about the field of tissue engineering and its remarkable promise for treating disease and injury. Students work in laboratories of scientists at Pittsburgh’s leading research centers.
The purpose of the middle school camp experience is to expose students to science content, techniques, and social impact by means of an exciting and relevant biomedical revolution. It is hoped that students will:
1. Increase their science process skills across the disciplines
2. Enhance their appreciation of science and technology
3. Become more aware of Southwestern Pennsylvania's role in cutting-edge biomedical science
4. Become more aware of educational and career opportunities.
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| July 2008 |
Design It! - Engineering Camp - Summer in the City
For middle school students:
Learn how to build cool things out of materials you can find around your house. Discover design techniques that real engineers use. See Pittsburgh as you've never seen it before—from an engineering perspective. You'll learn how to conquer challenges engineers face on real-life projects.
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| Summer 2008 |
iD Tech Camps at CMU
Weeklong, day and overnight, hands-on technology camps for ages 7-17 at 40 prestigious universities nationwide in 19 states and Spain, including Carnegie Mellon University. Students use industry-standard products to learn programming & robotics, film & edit digital movies, produce stunning special effects, create 2D & 3D video games and design websites with Flash animation. With one computer per student and an average of six students per instructor, campers are given the attention they need to excel and take home a project at the end of the weeklong course.
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| Do It Yourself!
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Track the lilacs, help researchers
Want to track global warming in your own backyard?
A program funded in part by the National Science Foundation
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| Volunteering
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| May - October |
Appalachian Trail Conservancy - Volunteer Trail Crew
Join a volunteer trail crew and spend a week or more helping to build and protect the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, America's premier long-distance footpath. We provide food, transportation, lodging, equipment and training, and the potential for unlimited fun. No previous trail experience is necesssary - just a desire to work hard, live primitively in the backcountry and have a great time among friends.
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| Student Internships
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| Summer 2008 |
Summer Research Internships for Graduating College Students
With the goal to attract youth to the field of tissue engineering, as well as to provide meaningful research opportunities, PTEI (Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative)developed and sponsors an annual undergraduate Summer Internship Program (SIP). This program showcases the many opportunities in biomedical research and industry that are available. Since the program began in 1997, 166 undergraduate students have taken part in the 10-week program that runs from early June to mid-August. The SIP provides summer research internships for undergraduate college students who are currently enrolled in or are graduating seniors of an undergraduate program, pursuing careers in bioengineering, biotechnology, medicine, computer science, chemistry, engineering, the natural sciences, and other related fields
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| Summer 2008 |
High School Internship Program - Biotech
Application deadline April 1:
The PTEI (Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering initiative) high school summer internship program was developed with the goal to provide junior and senior high school students a first-hand opportunity to experience the excitement and vast employment opportunities careers in science and engineering provide, as well as to learn more about the field of tissue engineering.
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| Summer 2008 |
College Internships with Technology Oriented Businesses
PTC (Pittsburgh Technology Council)
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| Teachers - Continuing Ed
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| July 2008 |
CMU Summer Workshop for Teachers
Open to all K-8 computer science teachers nationwide.
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| Year Round |
Teacher Education and Research Training - Biotech
One-day, one-week and summer opportunities
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