University Outreach Center's Summer Science Camps

德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校每年为150名进入八年级和九年级的非洲裔和西班牙裔青少年举办三次系列的暑期科学营。这些项目旨在为少数民族中学生建立一个连贯而坚实的基础，以培养他们对科学和数学的兴趣和理解，这些项目是在大学现有的外展中心的背景下提出的，这些外展中心主要集中在奥斯汀、达拉斯和里约热内卢格兰德山谷的少数民族。SSC的环境和活动旨在通过让参与者参与广泛的研究过程并与活跃的数学家，工程师和科学家互动，使他们与科学，数学和技术的人和“事物”进行直接和个人的接触。每个SSC课程的重点体现在每个站点的主要年度主题中，该主题源于当地学生群体的特殊性和该地区的可用资源（例如基础基础，机器人和空间技术，生态/植物/动物研究，农业综合企业和基因工程等）。SSC学生参与者将与接受过教师提升计划培训的教师进行互动，从而将初中生与他们在初中和高中可能遇到的训练有素的科学和数学教师相匹配。这种互动的最终设计结果是在学年的课堂上创造“学生-教师联盟”，他们在科学和数学学习过程中拥有共同的兴趣和共同的经历，将他们联系在一起。

The University of Texas at Austin conducts three series of Summer Science Camps annually for 150 African-American and Hispanic youths entering the eighth and ninth grades. Designed to build a coherent and solid foundation among minority middle schoolers for an interest in and understanding of science and mathematics, these programs are presented in the context of existing Outreach Centers established by the University in major concentrations of target minorities in Austin, Dallas, and the Rio Grande Valley. The SSC environment and activities are designed to bring the participant into immediate and personal contact with the people and "things" of science, mathematics and technology by having them participate in a wide range of research processes and interacting with active mathematicians, engineers and scientists. The focus of each of the SSC's curricula is embodied in a major yearly theme for each site that is derived from the particular nature of local student populations and the available resources of that area (e.g. basic foundations, robotics and space technology, ecology/plant/animal study, and agribusiness and genetic engineering, etc.). SSC student participants will interact with teachers trained in teacher enhancement programs, thus matching the middle schoolers with trained science and mathematics teachers that they will likely encounter in upper middle and high school. The ultimate designed outcome of this interaction is the creation of "student-teacher allies" in the academic-year classroom who are bound together by both shared interest and common experience in the science and mathematics learning process.