Sun Devils set up camp for summer scholars

Todd Graham, ASU head football coach, talks to the participants in his three-day football camp held at ASU’s Kajikawa Practice Field.

High school coach Adam Olson (back to camera) and ASU staff member Vince Hug work with campers on the footwork fundamentals.

A camp participant works on his line backing skills under the direction of volunteer coach Brad West.

Charli Turner-Thorne, ASU women’s basketball coach answers questions from campers at the beginning of her camp in Wells Fargo Arena.

Camp participants work on their ball handling skills.

Campers work on their layup shots with assistance from Sun Devil Jada Blackwell, at the ASU Weatherup Center.

Former Sun Devil soccer player Jessie Richardson instructs participants during the Sun Devil Soccer Camp.

Choreographer Cindy Thole rehearses "Oliver" in Galvin Playhouse in preparation for “The Family Finale” at the end of Camp Broadway. Seventy theater-loving kids took part in a one-week, intensive learning experience from Broadway professionals straight from New York City.

Camp Broadway organizes participants into four groups to work on singing, dancing, acting, improvisation and more. By the end of the week, the campers put on a show for family and friends, called “The Family Finale.” This year, the shows for the finale were “Oliver,” for the younger group, and “My Fair Lady,” the rehearsal shown here.

Jack Haek, 12, of Chandler, Ariz., paints a rocket he constructed during the “3-2-1 Take Off” rocket camp on ASU’s Polytechnic campus. The participants learned the science of propulsion and engineering design as they built their own rockets.

James Nelson (left) and Sarah Churchwell, both students in the College of Technology and Innovation, and camp instructors, prepare to launch Emma Rymarcsuk’s (right) rocket on a test flight.

Taylor Shaw (left) and Cassidy Trowbridge set up a shot during the High School Broadcast Institute and High School Digital Journalism Institute at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication on the Downtown Phoenix campus. The two-week camp brings students to ASU for an intensive, hands-on experience in broadcast and online journalism.

Children play in the pool at the ASU Student Recreation Complex during the Sun Devil Kids Camp. The camp runs daily through Aug. 6. To learn more about the camp visit http://src.asu.edu/Youth/KidsCamp.

Sean Graninger, a senior marketing student and camp staffer, joins in on the fun and plays with the campers at the Student Recreation Complex pool.

Jessica Braun, a master's student in earth science education, helps Ben Aguila, 12, of Gilbert, Ariz., with a fuel cell powered car project during the renewable energy camp on ASU's Polytechnic campus. As part of the CTI Academy, the participants learned about renewable energy technologies, including solar cells, fuel cells, wind and hydrogen through a hands-on lab.

Logan Bingham, a senior at Red Mountain High School, concentrates on a suture assignment during the 3rd Mini Med Camp at ASU. More than 40 high school students participated in the class to explore the many disciplines and opportunities in medicine.

At the Chinese Language Summer Camp, participants learned how to speak, read and write Chinese. Camper Xochitl Longstaff gets some hands-on help with writing from Sophia Lee. Longstaff came up from Tucson, Ariz. to participate in the camp.

In addition to classroom work, the Chinese Language Camp included cultural activities, such as: calligraphy, dance, martial arts, arts and crafts, and field trips. Here, Daphne Guo (left) and Casey Payne work on a calligraphy exercise.

Imagination and engineering came together at the “Teaching Engineering Design with Rube Goldbergineering” camp on ASU's Polytechnic Campus. Three teams of middle school students designed, built and tested their creations, then combined the three projects into one chain reaction machine. Amaya Lin (left) and Ryan Unroe reset their section of the device during the testing process.

High school students visited the Phoenix Pavement Testing Lab in downtown Phoenix as part of the Summer Transportation Institute, a three-week summer program hosted by the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. Students take tours, meet professionals around the state, and learn what engineers do to make transportation systems work effectively and safely.

Students in the Barrett Summer Scholars Engineering Design Camp gained a hands-on introduction to engineering by designing, constructing and testing a water filtration system, then building a small-scale aquaponics system. The course is part of the Barrett Summer Scholars program for gifted Arizona middle-school students.

Middle and high school students learned design concepts and computing technology at ASU’s Robotics Camps. The summer program series, led by Yinong Chen, a lecturer in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, one of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, has engaged hundreds of middle and high school students in science, engineering and math projects each summer since 2006.

Game Camp engages middle and high school students in intensive video game creation, visualization and production. The summer camp is led by Yoshihiro Kobayashi (left), a lecturer in the School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, one of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.

Undergraduate computer systems engineering major, Sami Mian, helps young students in the Robotics summer camp. Robots built by students will enter a robotics challenge and demonstration at the end of camp.

Peter Crozier, associate professor in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, one of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, visits with Best of Engineering, Science and Technology (BEST) campers in the Materials Lab. BEST camps bring middle school students to campus for a week of activities ranging from LEGO robotics to rocket launching.

Students interested in a career in education spent three weeks in the Hunnicutt Future Educators Academy on ASU's Tempe campus. One of the events offered the opportunity to ask questions to a panel of accomplished teachers. The panel was made of up Daron Gonzales, Cassandra Forbes, Benjamin Roat (speaking), Anna Harding, Eileen Gewargis and Joy Weiss.

Megan McNaughton (left), from Seton Catholic High School, Matthew Bejar, from Trevor Brown, and Lindsay Carson, who came to Tempe from Washington to participate in the Future Educators Academy, listen to the panel.