Summer Academic Enrichment Eligible Programs

Goals

The goal of this camp is to encourage young women to be confident in their laboratory experiences and motivate them to pursue a career in the sciences. Most students understand clinical research with humans or even laboratory animals such as mice and rats, but not many have been exposed to cultured cells or plant biochemistry. In a brand new state-of-the-art science facility, students will perform hands-on experiments such as: fluorescence microscopy, ELISA, flow cytometry, and GC/MS.

Activities

To encourage young women (after their sophomore or junior year of high school) to be confident in their laboratory experiences and motivate them to pursue a career in the sciences, I would like to host a 'biochemistry summer research camp' at Bethel. This camp would follow the schedule created for other Bethel Academy Camps to provide an on-campus experience and interaction with students studying other disciplines. Together with a female Bethel student that has just finished Biochemistry II with me, I would like to provide these students “hands-on” experiences in our new biochemistry lab with techniques such as cell culture, fluorescence microscopy, ELISA, proliferation assays, flow cytometry, GC/MS, and plant biotechnology. During incubation periods between experiments, I would like to ask additional female Bethel faculty and alums to share details about their experiences and careers.

Program Dates

June 14 – June 16 2022 One 3 day session.

Can students reside on campus? Yes

Can students commute to campus? No

Can students take online classes? No