KEEPERS (Kids Eager for Engineering Program with Elementary Research-based Science)
Keepers summer camp will take place at Barrington Elementary School, July 14 - 18, 2008.
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KEEPERS for Kids
KEEPERS is a weeklong, half-day experience that acquaints elementary students with the various engineering fields. Activities are designed to assist the development of inquiry and design skills. Students explore fun, real science concepts, and engage in short stories and hands-on challenges.
Come learn with us! Engineering activities for science inquiry and design skills. Kids Eager for Engineering Program with Elementary Research-based Science is a weeklong adventure in engineering. The program provides a half-day of content strengthening to learn about the science that supports the various engineering fields and a half-day of active learning with elementary students and the engineering design process. 
All activities are designed to assist elementary students with developing inquiry and design skills through engineering challenges! The KEEPERS program can be implemented as a summer program in your community! The KEEPERS staff includes University scientists, graduate and undergraduate students, and experienced teachers.
KEEPERS for Teachers - Summer 2008
For more information and to apply to Keepers for Teachers contact Mimi Winder.
KEEPERS provides a means for K-8 teachers to further their own professional development, as well as increases student awareness of the various engineering disciplines and the problems they solve. Teachers participating in KEEPERS will be able to take away experience and a short but complete curriculum for use in teaching engineering in their classrooms, or in future programs.
KEEPERS for Teachers provides professional development for K-8 teachers and is aimed at developing your students’ awareness of the various engineering disciplines and the problems they solve. This weeklong program provides half-day content strengthening with hands–on, minds-on challenges that will be set up for delivery with Grade 2-5 campers. The campers participate in half-day adventures with the teachers using the design challenge process. Each day’s professional development and programming are accomplished with graduate students and engineers from 5 different engineering areas: Civil, Chemical, Electrical, Environmental, and Mechanical.
This professional development model encourages ongoing use of engineering challenges in Grade 2-5 classrooms and/or after school or summer Engineering Camps in New Hampshire Communities. Participating teachers can continue to use the KEEPERS curriculum for annual summer camps in their own communities. As possible, the UNH Leitzel Center can assist with the alignment of engineering faculty, local engineers from industry, or graduate students to visit and mentor young students involved in the programs.
KEEPERS for Teachers will run from July 13-18 during summer 2008. On Sunday July 13, teachers will attend an orientation session in the afternoon to prepare for the week. Throughout the week, teachers will attend camp from 8-noon, interacting with campers and staff while learning about the design process, gauging student understanding, ways of knowing, testing, and learning about systems, and literature connections. Monday through Thursday, teachers will be invited to stay after camp hours to discuss the day’s events. On Friday, teachers will participate in an in-depth reflection and evaluation of the week’s activities and student engagement.