UB Summer Program
May 26- July 3 2020
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Upward Bound's six-week summer program is an exciting chance to experience a University environment and develop leadership, technology, and communication skills. These skills will be developed in a classroom environment and translated into a real life setting. You will learn the skills necessary for success in a college environment.
Broken up into smaller sections, the overarching coursework will be roughly 2 weeks of instruction in a University format followed by 4 weeks of a field experience through Alaska. The design of the curriculum and the activities are inspired by the T3 Alliance program, a National Science Foundation grant that was awarded to the University of Alaska Fairbanks Upward bound program to increase student engagement in STEM career fields.
During the first two weeks, students will attend classes in the morning based upon their standing in high school. Topics such as writing, and math, college 101, Alaska history, music theory, physical education, and storytelling and marketing will be covered. In addition every student will be enrolled in the T3 Alliance class, and will learn topics described here. Students who have been involved with T3 Alliance in the past will be able to work through the more advanced topics. In the afternoons, a series of electives will be available for students to choose from based upon their interests. These electives include:
Horticultural Science ( learning everything about building automated grow towers)
3D Printing / Drones / GIS ( learning to print and fly drones that collect meaningful data)
Smart Building and energy systems ( learning to build a mobile makerspace)
Videography (learning to capture and create quality videos related to above projects)
During the final four weeks of the program, students from Upward Bound T3 Alliance programs around the United States will come to UAF to learn about Alaska and the technologies we covered. After one week of student led workshops and Fairbanks area field trips, we will depart for an 8 day road trip to the costal town of Seward Alaska. Along the way we will visit a working coal mine, camp in Denali National Park, tour the University of Alaska Anchorage, and stay at the Seward Sea Life Center. Students will apply the technology skills developed during the summer program in various local community engagement opportunities. These may include:
Installing a raspberry pi based seismometer in Denali National park
Installing raspberry pi based air quality meter in Chugach National Forrest
Creating 3d maps of river drainages in Seward with a drone
Installing a raspberry pi underwater camera at the Seward Sea Life Center
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