2025 Summer Day Camp: REGISTRATION OPEN!
Forage 2 Farm - July 14th -17th, 2025
This four-day immersive STEM camp will provide students with hands-on experiences in foraging and sustainable agriculture. Through hands-on activities in foraging, farming, and ecology students will learn where our food comes from and how it impacts the environment around us. Analyze issues that face farmers today and see Science in nature right in their own backyard. Visit GVSUs farm, walk the ravines on our Allendale campus with a forager, and meet industry professionals in this fun outdoor camp.
Advanced Manufacturing Camp - June 23rd - 26th, 2025
Join us as we explore this exciting summer camp for middle school students in Advanced Manufacturing! This summer camp is a four-day hands-on immersive STEM experience for students entering 6th and 7th (this fall) in advanced manufacturing and careers. Students will participate in a large group introduction followed by breakout sessions facilitated by GVSU staff, students, and industry professionals from around West Michigan. Sessions will include hands-on activities in CAD, 3-D Printing, Design Thinking, and Automation that will provide a glimpse into the future of the largest industry sector in Michigan. An introduction to careers in advanced manufacturing will engage students in learning about career pathways from industry professionals from West Michigan. Students will also have the opportunity to participate in off-site industry tours.
Young PI's Summer Scholar Program, July 7 - July 11, 2025
July 7 - 11, 2025
The Young Pis Summer Scholar program's goal is to introduce high school students to lab techniques and research methods. Over the course of a week-long summer camp, students will complete labs based on biomedical sciences, biology, physics, and chemistry. High school students will be paired with an undergraduate mentor and be able to discuss research, college life, and how they can best prepare to excel when they reach the university level. The camp will also include a community tour of Grand Rapids based research institutes, exploring careers based on the exploration of STEM.
Other STEM Camp opportunities!
Grand Valley State University
Muskegon Career Tech Center
Grand Rapids Public Museum
Van Andel Institute
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GV Students! Are you looking for a fun summer job?
2025 Throughline Counselor Application
The GVSU Regional Math and Science Center (RMSC), in partnership with the Padnos College of Engineering (PCE), is seeking to hire four full-time GVSU students to serve as camp counselors for eight-week summer camp sessions. Camps are week-long 4-day camps, concentrating on informal STEM topics such as aviation/aerospace, engineering design, advanced manufacturing, foraging and sustainable agriculture. Camps are held at two GVSU locations: Allendale and Grand Rapids Pew Campus.
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