Virginia Mathematics Teacher Spring 2017

Summer 2016 STEM Camps Age Level Date Cost Location

Camp

Contact/Website

Governor’s STEM Academies

Gifted students of any age

Dates vary by location

See website for more details

Price varies

http://www.doe.virginia.gov/ instruction/career_technical/ gov_academies/academies/ index.shtml https://www.idtech.com/ locations/virginia-summer- camps/williamsburg/id-tech- college-of-william-and-mary/ http://www.mathtree.com/ mt_FindCamp_VA_0.aspx

iD Tech Camps

7-12; 13-17

Weekly Camps June-July

William & Mary, Williamsburg

See website for details

Mathtree

5-15

June through Au- gust, depending on location

Varies

$380-$465 varies by program

VT Imagination

Rising 7th-8th Grades

July 10-14 July 17-21

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg

$150 (financial aid available) $350 (financial aid available) $350 (financial aid available)

www.eng.vt.edu info email: imagina- tion@vt.edu www.wvutech.edu Kimberlyn Gray, WVUtechSTEM- camps@mail.wvu.edu

Camp STEM-WVU

Grades 9-12

June 18-23

West Virginia University, Morgantown West Virginia University, Morgantown

STEM Summer Academy for Girls

Grades 9-12

June 28-July 3

www.wvutech.edu/girlsinstem wvutech.edu/girlsinstem

Camp Invention

Grades k-6

June 19-23 (other times availa- ble)

Radford University (other locations available) Radford University

$225

Register at: http://campinvention.org/2016 -program/

Summer Bridge

Rising 10-12th grade girls

July 9-14

$400 before Scholarships

Contact David Horton rhorton@radford.edu

Math Jokes

Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50 percent imagination. "What's your favorite thing about mathematics?" "Knot theory." "Yeah, me neither." How do you prove in three steps that a sheet of paper is a lazy dog? 1. A sheet of paper is an ink-lined plane. 2. An inclined plane is a slope up. 3. A slow pup is a lazy dog. There really are only two types of people in the world, those that don’t do math, and those that take care of them.

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