Social 7 June 2013

72 youths participate in STEM Camp

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Seventy-two youths from 11 counties participated in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) Camp, June 4-6 at Canter’s Cave 4-H Camp.

This was the first STEM camp developed and facilitated by OSU Extension 4-H Youth Development educators from Adams, Gallia, Highland, Jackson, Meigs, Pike, Scioto and Vinton counties.

Pictured above are youth learning about solar energy by making solar ovens with pizza boxes.

They used the ovens to cook S ’mores. The pizza boxes were donated by Domino’s Pizza of Hillsboro.

Additional learning activities campers participated in included making ice-cream using liquid nitrogen, robotics, rocket science, animal science, food science and natural energy.  

Campers also participated in several engineering design challenges, an unusual “fire science” campfire, and a field trip to OSU South Centers, where they learned about careers in aquaculture and heard from two A-Plant scientists.

The camp was held at Canter’s Cave 4-H Camp in Jackson and was funded in part by grants from

The Ohio 4-H Foundation and the South Central Region Endowment Fund.

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