March 21, 2008
Students Can Find Potential Careers at Big Red Summer Camps
LINCOLN, Neb. — High school students from all parts of Nebraska will be able to explore potential careers during the 2008 Big Red Summer Camps at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in June.
Thirteen different camps will be offered to students interested in particular careers. New camps this year include dance, landscape design and spiders.
"It's a great opportunity to see if (students) are interested in a particular college major or a career," said Tracy Pracheil, an extension educator in UNL's 4-H youth development program. "They get a whole week to concentrate on that one particular field."
The dance camp will be taught by the School of Music's Dance Program in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts. The camp will split classes by ability level so everyone can learn more about dancing at their own pace.
Another new camp, landscape design, will be taught by the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture. The camp will teach the basics of landscape and management while participants tour campus and community landscapes and gardens.
The spiders camp, taught by the School of Biological Sciences, will allow participation in lab and field-based experiments on local and foreign spider species.
Early registration for the camps is due April 1 to receive a discounted fee. Regular registration is due May 1. Space is limited and will fill on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Camp titles, dates and topics are:
June 15-20 – Child Development, ninth-12th grade. Participants will learn about the way children think, behave and come to learn about their world by engaging with children at the Ruth Staples Nature Camp.
June 15-20 – Culinary Arts, ninth-12th grade. Participants will learn basic cooking techniques and terminology.
June 15-20 – Culinology, 10th-12th grade. Participants will integrate science and culinary arts to design a new food item.
June 15-20 – Dance, ninth-12th grade. Participants will learn to improve dance skills in modern dance, ballet, choreography and other activities.
June 15-20 – Food Molecular Biology, ninth-12th grade. Participants will piece together the puzzles of a foodborne disease outbreak using DNA analysis, epidemiological data and problem-solving skills to link cases from across the country.
June 15-20 – Golf, ninth-12th grade. Participants will learn, develop and improve their golf game. Campers need to bring their own equipment. For more information and to register for the course, visit U.S. Sports Camps.
June 15-20 – Landscape Design, ninth-12th grade. Participants will learn how to blend design with science and environment to create beautiful and functional landscapes.
June 15-20 – Movie-making, 10th-12th grade. Participants will produce their own film and get to see one of the few digital film projectors in the world.
June 15-20 – Quilt Design, ninth-12th grade. Participants will explore pattern, color relationships and quilt design and learn to plan an original quilt.
June 15-20 – Spiders, ninth-12th grade. Participants will learn to collect, identify and maintain local spiders while experimenting in labs and fields on local and foreign spider species.
June 15-20 – Theater, ninth-12th grade. Participants will explore theater at the professional level, both on stage and behind the scenes.
June 8-11 – Unicameral Youth Conference, ninth-12th grade. Participants will interact with government officials to relate the Nebraska Unicameral to American politics.
June 15-20 – Web Design and Animation, ninth-12th grade. Participants will make an original Web site using animation and other advancing techniques.
For more information or a camp brochure, visit the Web at Big Red Camps or contact Kathleen Lodl at (402) 472-9012 or klodl1@unl.edu.
UNL Extension and 4-H Youth Development are part of the university's Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
3/21/08-AB Kathleen Lodl - Ph.D.
4-H Youth Development 4-H Youth Development Specialist (402) 472-9021
 
Sandi Alswager Karstens IANR News and Photography (402) 472-3030
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4-H Youth Development
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