Exploring STEM through Art
June 23-28, 2013
Campers entering grades 7-9
Exploring STEM Through Nature
June 23-28, 2013
Campers entering grades 7-9
Camp Invention (Day Camp)
June 17-21 2013
Campers entering grades 1-6
Early registration discounts are available. NIU employees and students should use their niu.edu email address and register online to receive a discount.
Career Exploration Camps
Session options- Engineering & Technolgy, Health Services, Green Science, Video Game Design
July 28-Aug 2, 2013
Campers entering grades 10-12
Engineering Amusement
July 21-26, 2013
Campers entering grades 5-7
Register Here!
Additional Information - 2013 Staff, Facilities, Forms and Fees
Past Camp Photos!
STEM Camp Directors
Pati Sievert is director of NIU's STEM Outreach department as well as our STEM camps. She holds a Master’s Degree in Physics Education and has many years of experience working with young people in schools, camps, outreach programming and as a high school physics teacher.
Jeremy Benson is assistant director of NIU's STEM Summer camps. Jeremy also has experience working with young people as lead counsellor and overnight supervisor of NIU's STEM camps, as well as presenting our STEM demonstrations, Saturday classes and hands-on exploration programs to students all over Nothern Illinois.
Please contact Pati or Jeremy with any questions about programming or camp life. psievert@niu.edu, (815) 753-1201 or jjbenson@niu.edu, (815)753-0533.
Staff
Camp insturctors are experienced classroom teachers and NIU faculty and students who are selected because of their ability DO science. NIU faculty and graduate students work with the high school science research scholars.
Counselors for all sessions are NIU students in the sciences or eduation who enjoy working with young people and having a great time with science. They assist with the sessions as well as lead science-related recreational activities.
Facilities
NIU's DeKalb Campus hosts all of the 2012 STEM camps listed above. This allows campers to get a feel for campus life. Campers reside in double rooms on a secure floor in a tower dorm with our counselors. They share the dorm and dining hall with campers from many of NIU's other summer programs. They hike to and from labs, just as they will in college.
Most camp activities occur in laboratories in Faraday Hall and outdoors. Davis Hall Observatory and other science facilities are also used.
Forms
As part of the registration process, the following infomation packet must be downloaded and printed, and the included forms must be completed and returned for each camper no later than two weeks before the first day of camp. The registration packet can be found by clicking here.
Fees
Early Registration is $575 until May 15th for June Camps, or June 1st for July Camps. All camps will then be $595. Additional field trip and technology fees may apply for some camps. See registration page for additional discount information.
Payment
We have set up a payment plan in consultation with parents. If you are applying more than 60 days prior to camp, you will be charged a $100.00 deposit at that time and then will be charged two additional times: at 60 days prior to camp, you will be charged 50% of the camp fee minus the $100.00 deposit and at 30 days prior to camp, you will be charged the remainder of the fee. If you apply within 60 days of camp, you will be charged 50% of the camp fee at the time and the remainder at 30 days prior to camp. If you apply within 30 days of camp, you will be charged the full amount at registration. Please take this payment plan into consideration when providing us with a card number as all charges will be made to the same account.
Scholarships
A very limited amount of scholarship money is available for campers based on financial need. Please contact Pat Sievert at psievert@niu.edu for an application.