2024 Summer Academies
Registration opens: Mon. April 1st, 2024
Closes: Tue. April 30th, 2024
2024 Summer Academies
Registration opens: Mon. April 1st, 2024
Closes: Tue. April 30th, 2024
We are excited to offer 23 career exploration Summer Academies to students 6th-12th grades.
Academies are typically one day programs designed to provide a unique opportunity for students to explore a variety of careers.
We believe in giving students options to make informed decisions about their future.
Local professionals will share their expertise and career journey.
With increasing interest in our free program, we ask that participants limit their selections to 3, and check their calendar before committing to academies.
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Jun 11 | Diesel Tech – CLOSED
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Jun 12, 19, 26, Jul 9, 16, 23 | Scrubs – CLOSED
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Jun 13 | Safe Sitter – CLOSED
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Jun 13 | Coding/Python – CLOSED
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Jun 18, 19, 20 | Citizen Science – CLOSED
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Jun 18 | Fire/EMS – CLOSED
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Jun 20 | Automotive – CLOSED
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Jun 25 | Cosmetology – CLOSED
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Jun 25, 26, 27 | Steminist Camp
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Jun 26 | Finance – CLOSED
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Jul 8, 9, 10, 11 | Culinary – CLOSED
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Jul 9 | Cooking with Science
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Jul 10 | Engineering with EV Lab – CLOSED
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Jul 11 | Medical Expo
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Jul 16 | Safe Sitter – CLOSED
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Jul 16, 17, 18 | Construction – CLOSED
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Jul 23 | Hospitality
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Jul 23 | Law Enforcement – CLOSED
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Jul 24 | CAD/3D Printing – CLOSED
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Jul 30 | Sports Careers – CLOSED
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Jul 30, 31 | Small Business for Teens – CLOSED
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Jul 31 | Cyber Security – CLOSED
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Aug 1 | WI Business World
Registration
- Grades: 8-12
- Number students: 12
- Times: 9:00-3:00 (lunch included)
- Location:
Blackhawk Technical College
Main Campus, Janesville
Partner:
Instructor:
T.B.A.
Diesel technicians possess the necessary skills to become specialized mechanics in the construction, agriculture, and railway transportation sectors. The Diesel camp offers students a glimpse into the daily life of a diesel technician, where they will engage in a brakes project involving one of our large diesel rigs.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Closed toe shoes required, no sandals or crocs etc.
- Wear long pants
- No loose clothes or hoodie strings that can get caught in moving parts.
- Tie back long hair
- Safety glasses will be supplied by are required to be worn
- Grades: 9-12
- Number students: 12
- Times: 9:00-12:00
- Location:
Blackhawk Technical College
Main Campus, Janesville
Partner:
Instructors:
Christy
Ann
Simulation Experience – BTC utilizes a state-of-the-art simulation lab with medical and public safety scenarios to replicate real pre-hospital and clinical events. This workshop will provide for multiple interactive and hands-on experiences to allow students the opportunity to learn and practice skills in a controlled environment using life size robotic patient simulators. This year, 2 weeks of surgery tech has been added to enhance the exploration experience. The scope of information and practice provided to students, will range from infant to adult patient age groups and conditions. Simulations will have a realistic affect.
Please only register if you can attend all 6 sessions.
- Age: 11-15
- Number students: 8
- Times: 8:30-3:15 (lunch included)
- Location:
Hendricks CareerTek
Partners:
Instructor:
Courtney Urbanek
Designed to prepare students to be safe when they’re home alone, watching younger siblings, or babysitting. The Instructor-led class is filled with fun games and role-playing exercises. Students even get to use mannequin to practice rescue skills like choking rescue! Note: the 6/13 and 7/16 dates contain the same content. Please only sign up for one.
- Grades: 6-8
- Number students: 12
- Times: 9:00-3:00 (lunch provided)
- Location:
Blackhawk Technical College
Main Campus, Janesville
Partner:
Instructor:
Melissa Dix
Students will hear a brief history of programming that includes Python, and will explore the way it is used in IOT (Internet of Things). They will set up an environment of free interpreter software that can be used at home to further complicated cripting as time allows. Students will leave with some resources they can use to continue learning to program in Python on their own.
Schedule:
- 9:00 – 10:00
Introductions, ice breaker, history of programming and Python uses - 10:00 – 10:15 | Break
- 10:15 – 12:00
Environment set up, simple program construction - 12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch
- 1:00 – 2:00
More complicated scripting, advanced programming - 2:00 – 2:15 | Break
- 2:15 – 3:00
Review of what we’ve learned, intro of resources to use for further exploring and development
- Grades: 8-12
- Number students: 20
- Times: 9:00-3:00 (lunch included)
- Location:
Blackhawk Technical College
Room 2611
Main Campus, Janesville
Partner:
Instructors:
Rob Balsamo, Eric Moe, Tina Jordan
Students will be introduced to the Fire Fighters and EMS careers and what education is needed for these careers, and will practice skills related to Firefighting and EMS. Activities include Airway management, bleeding control, searching for victims, using an extinguisher, putting out a car fire and more.
- Grades: 6-12
- Number students: 25
- Times: 9:00-3:00 (lunch included)
- Location:
Welty Environmental Center
Partner:
Instructor:
T.B.A.
GLOBE Citizen Science Camp encourages students to connect with the outdoors by investigating the many spheres of the world: atmosphere (air and weather), pedosphere (soil), and hydrosphere (water). Over the course of this week, campers will become citizen scientists and share their observations with NASA scientists through the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program. This hands-on experience will demonstrate various STEM fields that students can pursue in the future. Participants must be prepared to spend time outdoors (i.e., sunscreen, bug spray, long pants, close-toed shoes) and bring old shoes for use in the water as we will be exploring wetlands during this week as well!
- Grades: 8-12
- Number students: 10
- Times: 9:00-2:00 (lunch included)
- Location:
Blackhawk Technical College
Main Campus, Janesville
Partner:
Instructor:
T.B.A.
Students will have fun collabrating as they perform critical thinking to solve problems using diagnostic techniques. They will become familiar with tools and equipment that are used in the automotive industry, and will experience fun, hands-on activities. Student teams will compete to rotate tires in a specific order with each student taking a tire off and remounting the tire in a different position on the vehicle. Using a scan tool, students will retrieve an engine code from a vihicle and diagnose the code. Student will receive a tour of an Electric Vehicle build and take a ride in the high torque, tire spinning vehicle as it rolls around the track.
Schedule:
- Tour of the facility/safety briefing/organizing into teams
- Tire Rotation Team Events with consolation prize for the winner
- Find that “Engine Code” using a Scan Tool
- Grades: 6-12
- Number students: 20 Girls
- Times: 9:00-3:00 (lunch included)
- Locations:
- Welty Environmental Center
- Nature at the Confluence
- Leeson Park
- Sweet Allyn Park
- City of Beloit Water Pollution Control Facility
Partner:
Instructor:
T.B.A.
Muddy Waters STEMinist Camp will empower young women to investigate the many facets of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) through the lens of water science. Over the course of this week, campers will get their feet wet to collect chemistry and freshwater macroinvertebrate data to study causes and propose solutions to water quality issues. They will also engage with local female professionals in various types of water science and learn more about what it takes to pursue these careers
Campers will go home with confidence in their science skills, knowing more about the quality and health of the Rock River, and have a better understanding of how they can make a difference in their world. Participants must bring old shoes for use in the water, a change of clothes, a towel, and a plastic bag for wet and dirty items as we will be exploring wetlands!
- Grades: 9-12
- Number students: 15
- Times: 9:00-3:00 (lunch included)
- Location:
Hendricks CareerTek
Partner:
CBI Bank & Trust
Instructor:
Francisca Reyna
Here are some key steps that will be covered to get you started on your financial journey:
- Set achievable goals and create a budget
- Build up your savings account over time
- Learn about long-term savings and investment options
- Consider the impact of taxes on your finances
- Understand how interest rates affect your savings and debts
Ideas:
- Saving-compounding interest (chart & use of Game of Life money)
- Interest on credit cards
- Credit score
- First credit card
- Buying a car
- Giving back, charity
- Grades: 6-9
- Number students: 12
- Times: 9:00-3:00 (lunch included)
- Location:
Blackhawk Technical College
Main Campus, Janesville
Partner:
Instructors:
Chefs Robert Patrick & Hakim Salaam
Each day you will cook a different country’s or region’s food.
Day #1-Asia
Day #2-Greece
Day #3-Italy
Day #4-America
The skills covered but not limited to will be:
- Food safety and sanitation
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Handwashing
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Knife Skills
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Piping (icing, etc.)
This academy is newly expanded to 4 days. Only register if your student can attend all sessions.
- Grades: 8-12
- Number students: 6
- Times: 9:00-3:00 (lunch included)
- Location:
Hendricks CareerTek
Partner:
Instructor:
Paige Simonis
Join a Flavorist and a Chef to discuss how Kerry blends culinary science with chemistry in and out of the kitchen. Playing with your food has never tasted so good! From developing flavors for large food companies to showing off culinary skills, we’ll have a fun day exploring around the kitchen and tasting our inventions!
- Grades: 6 – 9
- Number students: 12
- Times: 9:00-3:00 (lunch included)
- Location:
Hendricks CareerTek
Partner:
Instructor:
Will Davis
Students are introduced to the history, development, and design features of electric vehicles. Students will also learn how to build their own electric vehicle and gain an understanding of this burgeoning technology. The engineering process will be explained as it pertains to their design and students can reflect on opportunities to improve it.
- Grades: 8-12
- Number students: 40
- Times: 9:00-2:00 pm
- Location:
Hendricks CareerTek
Partner:
Instructor:
T.B.A.
Students will spend the day with professionals from the medical field. Hands-on activities will accompany each focus of healthcare such as nursing, dental assisting, emergency medicine, laboratory testing, imaging, chiropractic.
Schedule:
- Age: 11-15
- Number students: 8
- Times: 8:30-3:15 (lunch included)
- Location:
Hendricks CareerTek
Partners:
Instructor:
Courtney Urbanek
Designed to prepare students to be safe when they’re home alone, watching younger siblings, or babysitting. The Instructor-led class is filled with fun games and role-playing exercises. Students even get to use mannequin to practice rescue skills like choking rescue! Note: the 6/13 and 7/16 dates contain the same content. Please only sign up for one.
- Grades: 8-12
- Number students: 15
- Times: 9:00-3:00 (lunch included)
- Location:
Hendricks CareerTek
Partner:
Students are invited to explore several Geronimo Hospitality serviced locations nestled in our Beloit downtown area. Together, they’ll gain an insider’s perspective on hotel and restaurant operations, craft their own lunch under the guidance of a seasoned chef, delve into coffee brewing science, and discover career possibilities and pathways in Hospitality.
- Grades: 7 – 12
- Number students: 15
- Times: 9:00-3:00 (lunch included)
- Location:
Blackhawk Technical College
Main Campus, Janesville
Partner:
Instructor:
T.B.A.
The activities will be designed to show students a more in-depth view of what skills are needed to be a law enforcement officers. While many people see officers driving squad cars and performing other tactical skills, it is the critical thinking, decision making, observation skills, and creative problem solving that are the skills most often used by modern day law enforcement officers.
Schedule:
- 9:00 – 9:40 | Report Writing
Report Writing – Students will be shown a clip of a scenario and will be given a sheet, which will be age dependent, that contains a written report of the incident. Students will be asked to fill in the blanks of the report (the older they are the more blanks there will be). This will help show the observation skills needed to document incidents. (Virtual option if needed) - 9:40 – 10:35 | Land Navigation
Students will be provided a map of the BTC campus and will be asked to navigate to specific areas in the college to find check points. This is an extremely important skill for a law enforcement officer to be able to navigate through the streets of their jurisdiction to get to an address or specific location. - 10:45 – 11:30 | Scene Observation
Students will be shown pictures of different rooms for a specific amount of time and will be asked to remember everything they see. We will then ask them specific questions related to the pictures to see if they remember what they saw. This is another observation skill activity, but more visual and is important in being observant and remembering what you saw. (Virtual option if needed) - 11:30 – 12:00 | Physical Agility
- 12:00 – 12:45 | Lunch
- 12:45 – 1:00 | Critical Thinking
- 1:00 – 1:45 | Scene Processing
- 1:55 – 3:00 | Creative Problem Solving
- Grades: 6 – 9
- Number students: 10
- Times: 9:00-3:00
- Location:
Hendricks CareerTek
Instructor:
Will Davis
The CAD/3D printing summer academy will be an introduction to a 3D CAD program (TinkerCAD) and how to operate and use a Dremel 3D45 Printer. Students will learn machine setup and safety, how to use a 3D slicer program, and the basics of 3D modeling. Students will have the ability to create and 3D print several different models.
To Do:
Create Google sheet to track print colors and to save .stl/.gcode files
Schedule:
- 9:00 – 9:15 | T-Shirt/Bags, Introductions
- 9:15 – 9:30 | Introduction to 3D Printers (Parts, Setup, Filament, Printing)
- 9:30 – 10:00 | T.B.A.
- 10:00 – 10:30 | Basics of TinkerCard Tutorials (Place It, View It, Rotate It, Size It, Group It, Copy it, Align It)
- 10:30 – 11:30 | Lets Learn TinkerCad Tutorials (5 total)
- 11:30 – 12:00 | Key Ring Letters Tutorial – Start Printing (Dremel DigiLab Slicer Tutorial)
- 12:00 – 12:45 | Lunch
- 12:45 – 2:00 | Making Everyday Objects Part 1 (Simple Button, Trick Die, Custom Stamp, Backpack Zipper Pull Pull, Build a Spork for Space)
- 2:00 – 3:00 | Making Everyday Objects Part 2 if time permits (Chess Pawn, Numbered Die, Create your Own Monogram Ring)
- Grades: 9-12
- Number students: 20
- Times: 9:00-2:00 (lunch included)
- Location: ABC Supply Stadium
Partner:
Students will learn about the variety of careers needed to successfully experieince a SkyCarp baseball game. The day will be spent at the ABC Supply Stadium visiting with professionals from the different departments such as marketing, broadcasting, field/equipment maintenance, sports medicine along with a visit from Poopsie.
- Grades: 6 – 9
- Number students: 12
- Times: 9:00-3:00 (lunch included)
- Location:
Blackhawk Technical College
Main Campus, Janesville
Partner:
Instructor:
Melissa Dix
Learn the basics of cyber security through fun games and projects. Explore education paths and career opportunities in the field.
- Grades: 8-12
- Number students: 20
- Times: 9:00-3:00 (lunch included)
- Location:
Hendricks CareerTek
Partner:
Instructor:
Michelle Grajkowski
Are you innovative? Creative? Curious? Join us for an unforgettable hands-on experience where you will work together with other students to build a company, design a product and to learn more about business, entrepreneurship and our free enterprise system. Oh – and you’ll have fun, too. Prizes, pizza and other surprises will be provided!