SUMMER SCIENCE CAMP 2022
Helping high school students learn hands-on science
The Summer Science Camp is a unique program in Wisconsin for underserved high school students.
Five Mercer science students participated in an annual science camp in summer 2022. The weeklong camps, held each summer at the Morgridge Institute for Research in Madison, Wis., help rural students learn hands-on science and ignite their passion for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers.
There is no other program like the Summer Science Camp in the country. For 13 years, the camps have helped more than 300 rural high school students from nearly 80 state high schools. Some high schools have enrollments of 50 or fewer students.
Thanks to the outstanding support of private donors and the Wisconsin Rural Schools Alliance, the Rural Summer Science Camp has been offered free of charge since its inception.
Since 2007, campers have attended from every corner of the state—from Shell Lake in the Northwest; to Laona in the Northeast; to the Oneida Nation in Central Wisconsin; to Darlington in the Southwest; to Elkhorn in the Southeast.
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