STEM Summer Camp for Teachers

At our weeklong STEM Summer Camp for Teachers, you can learn firsthand about technology integration using Lake Michigan, lighthouses, shipwrecks, and Mackinac Island as your classroom. You’ll experience constructivist science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education while exploring Michigan’s finest state park, and come away with a valuable set of pedagogical and technical skills as well as usable lesson plans. Our strict limit of 16 attendees will ensure plenty of individual attention as you learn about technologies like the Global Positioning System, Lego robotics, and free software, and about engaging ways to integrate them into your curriculum.

We’ll be offering the program twice this year, from June 15 to 20 and from July 20 to 25. Our setting will be Mackinac Island, once the site of Fort Mackinac during the Revolutionary War and now 80% covered by Mackinac Island State Park. We’ll visit the island’s landmarks, historical and environmental, including Fort Mackinac, the forest, and the shore.

Who should come

  • Elementary educators
  • Middle and high school educators
  • Outdoor educators
  • Museum educators
  • Technology coordinators
  • Gifted and talented educators
  • Curriculum specialists
  • Support services educators

Learn about

  • Using a GPS unit and incorporating it in your curriculum
  • Lego robotics, using the RCX, NXT, and Robolab
  • Multimedia and video tools
  • Stop-motion animation
  • Simple programming languages
  • Critical thinking and information literacy
  • Meeting standards with constructivist education
  • Integrating STEM into the broader curriculum

Our home base will be Mission Point Resort, where we will set up a computer lab for our indoor activities. Lodging at Mission Point is included in the cost of the camp.

Is your family getting jealous? Bring them along. Mission Point has accommodations for families along with a variety of activities, and Mackinac Island has plenty to do and explore.

You’ll take home a multimedia project that you’ll create yourself, a binder of curriculum plans that you can use in your classroom, and a CD containing free software and all of our camp materials.The $2000 cost of the camp includes lodging, curriculum materials, bicycle and GPS unit rental, breakfast every day, and some other meals, as well as instruction worth 3 CEUs. We can provide $425 discounts for attendees sharing rooms. We can also provide larger or additional rooms for those bringing their families.