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LSU College of Engineering Residential Summer Camps: (LSU) The LSU College of Engineering is proud to offer two residential engineering summer camps to qualified high school students. These programs give high school students the chance to explore, create, experiment, build, code, design, and compete in a variety of engineering and college preparatory activities. The camps are held every summer on LSU’s Baton Rouge campus where college faculty and college students interact with attendees through a number of hands-on workshops and activities. The signature event at both camps is the week-long “Design Project Competition” in which students compete on teams to design, build, and present a project. Recruiting into Engineering High-Ability Multicultural Students (REHAMS) and Xploration Camp Inspiring Tomorrow’s Engineers (XCITE). VISIT HERE

• Initiative for minority recruiting and mentoring in mathematics (IMRAM): The LSU department of mathematics has embarked on a renewed initiative to recruit and mentor students from the historically underrepresented minority groups in mathematics and physical sciences. By establishing a comprehensive program of intervention at critical nodes of the students’ academic careers, the initiative hopes to ease the transition from one stage to another of its participants. Partially funded through 2012 by Louisiana board of regents, the project strategically aims to foster enthusiasm, interest and competence among its participants and help them become successful in their chosen careers. As such the initiative consists of three separate yet vertically integrated programs. ACT prep academies for high school seniors and juniors. Summer mathematical institutes for college seniors and juniors who have expressed interest to get into graduate mathematics programs. Summer ACT math circles. Implementation of academic year Mathematics Interest Groups (MIG) for a comprehensive academic advising, counseling and mentoring of minority mathematics students at LSU. VISIT SITE

• LSU Math Circle: Open to advanced high school students from Louisiana, this is a 3 week program that offers an environment full of challenges and critical thinking. The participants are exposed to a wide variety of math that they would not normally encounter in high school. They get a chance to visit local research facilities and see many real-world applications of math. VISIT SITE

• PyFUN Programming Summer Camp: The LSU Center for Computation & Technology (CCT) will host the PyFUN Programming Summer Camp for boys and girls entering grades six through eight (6-8) in the Baton Rouge and surrounding areas. This 5-day camp will consist of basic concepts of programming that are used in any programming language, and will include: Problem solving; What the parts of a computer are and how they work together; Syntax; Strings and console output; conditionals and flow control; functions, lists, dictionaries, and loops; introduction to classes, file input and output. Complete fun mini-challenges throughout the week, and get a taste for real-world programming! Our work all week will be completed with a half-day programming contest on Friday morning. Students will also create a webpage that parents may use to see the problems solved and code created each day as well as their student’s description of the day. VISIT SITE

• Baton Rouge Energy Venture Camp: Energy Venture Camp is designed for students to learn about careers in energy while having fun. Students will: Perform many hands-on experiments to explore the entire process of energy development; from how oil and natural gas are formed to the ways various types of energy are used. Build a generator, a motor, a car, a windmill, a solar house and a robot! Learn how to do basic programming and simulations. Perform simple labs to learn about photosynthesis, distillation, catalysts, pressure, temperature, density, fracking, combustion, how an engine works, and super conductors. Talk to experts about emerging technologies. Learn how energy shapes our world and talk to professionals about careers in energy. Have a unique hands-on experience at the LSU Petroleum and Chemical Engineering labs, the LSU Center for Computation & Technology, and the BRCC PTEC lab. Field trips, prizes and more! VISIT SITE

• Beowulf Boot Camp: The LSU Center for Computation & Technology (CCT) will host the ninth Beowulf Boot Camp, June 26-30, on the LSU campus. This exciting course offers students and teachers a unique opportunity to work with advanced research technology not usually available in a typical classroom setting. During Beowulf Boot Camp, students will work hands-on with a number of LSU professors as they learn how to build and use supercomputers. Regular participants include: Steven Brandt, a computational scientist in the CCT who specializes in programming; Dr. Jim Chen who studies hurricanes, tsunamis, and coastal science; Dr. Peter Diener, who uses supercomputers to simulate colliding black holes; and when available, Dr. Thomas Sterling, a former NASA scientist who invented the Beowulf supercomputing cluster. Students will engage in the following activities: building a computer cluster from scratch, installing the Linux operating system on the computer they’ve built, connecting computers put together by their peers to make a mini-supercomputer, learning how to program a mini-supercomputer in parallel with Python, interactive activities to help understand how Parallel computing works in Supercomputing. (Introductory Camp so no strong background required) VISIT SITE

• Gamecrash- Adventures in Game Design Camp: LSU’s Digital Media Arts & Engineering program at the LSU Center for Computation & Technology is happy to provide “Gamecrash – Adventures in Game Design”. Imagine, collaborate, create, develop and surpass your wildest imagination: Learn the tricks and techniques used to make modern video games from scratch. Use professional tools to produce quick and easy gameplay prototypes. Practice scripting, animating and digital art creation as well as level design and game design. Help unleash your creative potential to get ideas from your head onto the screen. VISIT SITE