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Contributed by: Tracy Williams on 3/27/2007

CCA to Host Hinkley Students for Spring Science, Math, Computer and Liberal Arts Camp

(Aurora, CO) -- The Community College of Aurora (CCA) will offer a one-day camp to area high school students on Friday, April 13, 2007.

The camp, funded by a grant from the Xcel Energy Foundation, will expose students to the many different areas of study at CCA, particularly science, mathematics, computer technology, anthropology, English, and poetry.

During a single camp session, 120 freshman students from Hinkley High School will be split between CCA's Lowry and CentreTech campuses. The sixty students at the Lowry campus will sample hands-on activities as planned by the science, math, and computer technology departments. The other sixty students at the CentreTech campus will sample hands-on workshops as planned by the Liberal Arts Division, which includes the subjects of anthropology, English, and poetry.

Each student will rotate between three different workshops at each campus. Once three workshops are completed, the Lowry campus students will be bused to the CentreTech campus to join the others for a CCA-sponsored lunch.

Following lunch, the students will be welcomed by CCA President Dr. Linda Bowman, view a promotional science video, and listen to Jesus Escarcega, diversity coordinator and inspirational speaker from Aurora Public Schools.

The students will then break out into smaller groups and discuss what they learned and participate in a question and answer session about their day camp experience. This will allow students to share experiences with their peers and share excitement about their possible futures at CCA.

Lastly, students will participate in a drawing and receive gifts from the college.

Camp sessions will include:

Lowry Campus
• Math Department: Tower of Pasta
Students will build a structure out of pasta and marshmallows and will compete for the title of best structure. (James Gray, Patricia Anderson, Instructors)

• Science Department: Pre-Health
Students will isolate DNA and examine animal brains. (Martha Jackson Carter, Sheridan Samano, Jill Stephens, and Todd Bergren, instructors)

• Computer Department: Computer Guts
Students will learn about programming and the internal hardware of the computer.
(Gil Davies, Glen Murphy, Constance Seiden, Karla Adamson-Lesko, instructors)

CentreTech Campus
• Anthropology: Bones, Stones and Monkeys
Students will explore human biology and adaptation. They will compare modern human skeletal features with other primates and extinct humans. (Elizabeth Hirsh, Gary Scott, instructors)

• English Department: In the Mind's Eye
Students will write what they "see" in their mind's eye as they listen to music. (Susan Achziger and Scott Reichel, instructors)

• Pollack' and Poetry: Drip and Scribble, Spackle and Speak
Students will simultaneously explore group artistic expression in three forms: painting, drawing and writing/spoken word. (Wayne Gilbert, Sue Gibbons, and Randall Painter, instructors)

For additional details, please contact Hyla Jerez, CCA Vocational/Education Diversity Coordinator at 303-340-7057.

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