Through the NDEP Virginia Demonstration Project (VDP), participating school divisions have the opportunity to send students to a summer camp hosted at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division. The first Summer Academy at Dahlgren took place in 2005. Through Summer Academy activities students engage in challenges related to engineering, robotics, ballistics, rocketry, electronics, biology and chemistry, and environmental science. The STEM Education Alliance has worked with other school divisions around the country to create summer camps similar to the VDP Summer Academy. You can learn more about Summer Academy activities by viewing the 2008 Summer Academy video below.
Summer Academy Video: This 2008 video shows how the VDP Summer Academies are organized. The summer program has expanded since this video, but many of the activities and overall set-up of the academy are still implemented as described.
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