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Camps Application (closed 3/15/2024)
Community Mission
Working with the network of SAME Posts, volunteers, and sponsors, the Camps Community of Interest (COI) supports the development, maintenance, and growth of a variety of camps to provide in-person experiences to students interested in exploring Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics skills and careers.
SAME camps help participants learn engineering and construction skills and principles through various projects involving complex problem-solving; experience the range of engineering fields they can explore based on their STEM interests; understand career options across the engineering sector; and interact with STEM volunteers and mentors. The net outcome is more STEM professionals available to meet the infrastructure and readiness needs of our nation.
Overview
Each year SAME supports numerous camps across the country and overseas, including five week-long in-residence Engineering & Construction Camps for high school students, to provide students with first-hand experience in STEM. Posts across the world support additional one-day to multi-day camps, extending the reach of the Society to more students.
This COI is open to any SAME member, strategic partner, member company, or donor interested in ensuring SAME continues to provide such in-person experiences.
COI Goals
- Provide a world-class STEM engagement program
- Recruit campers, staff and mentors at both the national and local level
- Expand the number of camp opportunities to engage more young people
- Ensure high school students continue on a STEM path after graduating
- Foster an alumni network engaged in the work of the Society
Strategic Alignment
Goal 2: Build and Sustain Resilient Communities–Lead efforts to prepare communities to absorb, recover, and adapt from natural and man-made threats, fortify our nation’s resolve directly where people work and live.
SAME Camps’ ability to contribute to technical and leadership skill-building in a competitive environment pushes campers resolve to solve problems. They become an important factor in their community’s ability to be resilient.
Goal 3: Develop Leaders for the Profession–Lead efforts to enhance leadership development and cultivate the talent necessary to address the nation’s grand challenges; ensure the enduring stewardship of the A/E/C profession.
At every turn, campers are presented with problems they must investigate, plot solutions, and test their plans. Success is not guaranteed, but that is part of the learning process. Campers understand that their ability to work in teams amplifies the impact they can make. They learn when to lead and when to follow, skills that contribute to the enduring stewardship of the A/E/C profession.
Goal 4: Enrich the STEM Pipeline for the Nation–Lead efforts to inspire, encourage, and enable youth to pursue STEM careers; help them develop the technical capacity that our nation needs to remain globally competitive.
Camps provide in-person experiences to students interested in exploring STEM-related skills and careers. Campers get to interact with scientists and engineers and hear about the path they followed in pursuing their careers. Campers gain a sense of what it takes to become a STEM professional and what options exist to explore that interest from high school to college and beyond. The net outcome is more STEM professionals available to meet the technical needs of our nation and remain globally competitive.
Chair: Cindy Miller, Jacobs, 770-314-2205
Navy (Port Hueneme) Camp Director: David Brewer |
Marine Corps Camp Director: Joseph Angell |
Navy (Jacksonville) Camp Director: Brian Files |
Incoming Chair: Allison Cantu |
Army Camp Director: Henry Dulaney |
Camps Program Manager (staff) Amy McGeever |
Air Force Academy Camp Director: Jame Hodges |
SAME National Webinars
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The Expanding Role of Artificial Intelligence in Energy
Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) has been prevalent in the news, but did you know that AI in the energy industry has been around for over 20 years? Over that time, its use has both grown and evolved; however, there are still foundational principles that remain for AI in the energy sector. -
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How Passive Samplers can Optimize and Reduce the Costs of Environmental Sampling Programs
This session highlights passive sampling devices (PSDs) and their many advantages over conventional sampling methods for quantifying the availability of per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS), hydrophobic organic compounds (HOC) and inorganic compounds in groundwater, sediment porewater, surface water and stormwater in terms of cost and data quality. -
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Creating Opportunities – Where you Are and Where you Will Be
Do you have challenges, risks, and obstacles, or are they opportunities? While the word opportunity means several things to SAME’s members, above all it denotes a mindset. -
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Achieving Compliance with the Service Contract Act
The labor standards of The McNamara O’Hara Service Contract Act (SCA) require compliance with a variety of labor standard provisions. -
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Climate Change: Adapting to Sea Level Rise
Due to climate change, sea levels along the U.S. coasts are expected to rise about 11 inches over the next 30 years. These increases, along with changing storm patterns, will result in severe flooding, erosion, and rising groundwater tables.
Monthly COI Call
The Camps COI hosts its monthly Steering Committee call on the second Thursday of each month, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. ET.