Middle School Programs
Chief Science Officers
What’s better than experiencing a STEM opportunity? Bringing it to your peers and changing your community! Be the voice of STEM in your school by becoming a Chief Science Officer. As a CSO, you will attend a Leadership Training Institute to increase your networking, verbal and written communication, and team building skills. CSOs also participate in cabinet meetings throughout the year and implement a STEM action plan to impact their school or community.
Program Timeline
Spring: School registration / CSO election
August: Leadership Training at SVSU
October: Cabinet Meeting at a local STEM Business
October - April: STEM Action Plan Implementation
March: Cabinet Meeting at a local STEM Business
May: CSO Celebration
SMEK Senior
Building mini golf courses, engineering bubble wands, solar-roasted smores, LEGO robots...what’s not to like!? This 3-day camp allows 5th-8th grade students to explore science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics through hands-on activities!
SMEKplus Senior Dates: July 22 - 24, 2025
Teen Science Café
Teen Science Café events allow teens and STEM professionals to engage in meaningful conversations and explore advances in science and technology. These events are open to any student in 6th - 12th grade in the Great Lakes Bay Region (Arenac, Bay, Clare, Gladwin, Gratiot, Isabella, Midland, Saginaw counties), as well as Huron and Tuscola counties.
Teen Science Cafes are always Free, Fun, and have Food!
Herbert H. & Grace A. Dow STEM Opportunity Camp
This FREE camp is a 4-week long day camp for rising 7th – 9th grade students of partner schools who are looking to reinforce fundamental math concepts. Discover your awesome abilities, build self-esteem, challenge yourself through science and math activities, participate in field trips and more through this program!
This program will not run in 2023.
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