Registration for DECTech Summer Camps for Summer 2022 are now open!
DECtech is a Colorado School of Mines outreach program designed especially for girls! Program leaders are female Mines students who are both passionate about their subjects of study and sharing this passion with the next generation. Our mission is to engage girls in STEM by introducing them to various subjects with an interactive, engaging, and hands-on approach!
K-12 students are the inventors, engineers, designers, and programmers of the future who will be challenged with problems that do not exist today. The summer 2022 DECtech sessions will expose students to current topics, skills, and knowledge in classrooms led by Mines undergraduates. Students will tour working labs and meet professors who are seismologists, robotics experts, biomedical experts, software engineers who design video games, and experts in AI/ML. Through fun hands on activities, unplugged activities, outdoor exploration, STEM labs, and computer applications, we will do our best to inspire, encourage, and stimulate your student's creativity and innate intelligence.
Students participate in grade-level appropriate activities and will explore air quality solutions using sensor systems and robots to investigate, collect, monitor, and display data. Unplugged activities and outdoor labs will complement computer lab work.
Students will participate in grade-level appropriate activities and will explore geology and plate tectonics using Python data science and 3D printing. Students will participate in a tour of the Mines Geology museum. Unplugged activities and outdoor labs will complement computer and STEM lab work.
Students will participate in grade-level appropriate activities and will explore current events related to artificial intelligence and machine learning. Students will participate in artistic applications with Python programming and biomedical engineering skills and topics. Unplugged activities and outdoor labs will complement computer and STEM lab work. Lessons will help students demystify AI/ML topics and foster the expression of creativity through computing.
Students will participate in grade-level appropriate activities and will learn Python programming to build functional video games. Unplugged activities and outdoor labs will complement computer and STEM lab work.