STEM Camp Projects

Summer 2024 projects will include

1) Electrical & Computer Engineering: building game controllers
2) Mechanical Engineering: functional origami
3) Computer Science: visual computer learning and programming
4) Math: tsunami prediction
5) Geology/Hydrology: sampling water and rock formations
6) Structural Engineering: designing and racing manned cardboard boats

...along with other projects, learning and fun! We will be touring a wide variety of campus labs, learning about cutting edge research happening at BYU, exploring career opportunities in STEM through our STEM Expo, and many other fun activities you won't want to miss! Keep your eye on this page for project descriptions coming soon!

Game Controller

Build your own game controller. Assemble, solder, and program your very own controller from scratch, with features customized by YOU!

STEM Area(s): Electrical engineering

Intro to Computer Vision

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming an important part of our everyday lives. Computer Vision allows intelligent systems to perceive and respond to the world around them. In this STEM Camp session, students will learn about how computers see the world around them. Students will also have hands-on experience, working in pairs, helping the computer to use a camera to locate, recognize and understand small objects near it.

STEM Area(s): Computer Science

Compliant Mechanisms

In BYU’s Compliant Mechanisms Research Lab you’ll learn about how compliant mechanisms, or things that fold and bend, can be used to solve real-world problems! See how Mark Rober used principles of compliant mechanisms in his world's smallest Nerf gun. Explore how origami is used to solve real-world problems, and have hands-on experience customizing an origami pattern to your own design!

STEM Area(s): Mechanical Engineering

Graph Theory and Topology

We will discuss how abstraction can lead to interesting solutions to mathematical problems. Specifically, we will discuss how abstraction allowed Euler to give a trivial solution to a difficult question in the 1700's and led to the development of graph theory and topology. We will split into groups and work on several specific projects related to graph theory and topology.

STEM Area(s): Math

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