March 13, 2009

Purdue to host gifted students at summer camps

 For more than 30 years these camps have offered a wide range of educational classes and social activities designed to give students an opportunity to experience an academic environment and life on a college campus.

Dates for camps are as follows:

* June 21-July 4: Star I (for students completing grades 7-8)

* June 21-July 4: Pulsar I (for students completing grades 9-12)

* July 5-18: Star II (for students completing grades 7-8)

* July 5-18: Pulsar II (for students completing grades 9-12)

* July 5-11: Comet I (for students completing grades 5-6) – commuter and residential option

* July 12-18: Comet II (for students completing grades 5-6) – commuter and residential option

The hands-on classes are designed to allow students the opportunity for in-depth immersion in topics that include engineering, forensics, law, journalism, physics, premedicine, anatomy, biochemistry, entrepreneurship and computer science.

In addition to the residential camps, the institute also offers Super Summer, a day camp for gifted and talented children ages four (pre-kindergarten) through fourth grade. A variety of classes are offered on topics such as geology, engineering, chess, veterinary science, chemistry, physics, literature and the arts.

Dates for Super Summer are as follows:

*Super Summer I: June 8-12

*Super Summer II: June 15-19

Pre-kindergarten children must be eligible to start kindergarten in the fall of 2009. For more information on the GERI summer camps, visit https://www.purdue.edu/geri  or e-mail geri@purdue.edu  or npereira@purdue.edu . For more information on Super Summer visit the Web site above or e-mail mille123@purdue.edu.

Writer: Clyde Hughes, 765- 494-2073, jchughes@purdue.edu

Source: Nielsen Pereira, 765-494-7241, npereira@purdue.edu

Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu

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