Come Join Us at the
2010 Lawrence Brothers Science Camp!

July 11-16, 2010

LBC2009

 


  • Purpose
  • Meet the
    Lawrences


The Lawrence Brothers Science Camp (LBC) is a week long, on-site summer camp at the University of South Dakota for students entering the 7th, 8th and 9th grades. Beginning in 2002, a yearly theme was chosen for the camp that is broad and includes aspects of physical science, chemical science, life science, mathematics and the health sciences.

The purpose of the camp is to engage young people in the excitement of interdisciplinary topics in science and mathematics through hands-on, minds-on discovery.

Opportunities:

  • One that uses state-of-the-art equipment
  • One that is discovery-based and involves participants designing and carrying out their own experiments
  • One that is directly related to the participant's personal experience
  • One that involves the use of mathematics
  • One that involves the use of computers
  • A keynote speaker on some aspect related to the theme
  • Participants will work in groups for cooperative learning

Participants will be housed in the residence halls at USD, have meals and activities provided, and will be supervised by undergraduate honor students during the evenings and by the teaching faculty and undergraduate and graduate students throughout the activities and experiments.

 

The Lawrence Brothers of Canton, South Dakota:

Born in Canton and educated at the University of South Dakota, our camp's namesakes went on to become pioneers in physics and nuclear medicine.

Ernest Orlando (E.O.) Lawrence (1901-1958)
1939 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
Inventor of the Cylclotron
Dr. John H. Lawrence (1904-1991)
1983 Enrico Fermi Award Winner
Father of Nuclear Medicine

E.O. Lawrence

E.O. Lawrence at work on the 37" cyclotron at the University of California in Berkeley in 1937.

John H. Lawrence

Dr. John H. Lawrence in his lab, January 1956.

 



EXPENSES

  • A $250 registration fee will be collected from each student
  • Scholarships are available. Please fill out the application form below:

    /images/pictures/icons/pdf.gif 2009 Scholarship Application Form

  • Expenses, including room, board, activities and chaperones, are covered
  • The camp will have 24-30 students who will stay in the residence halls (two to a room) and have a meal plan for the week
Fax or mail the scholarship application form to:

Lawrence Brothers Science Camp
Lee Med #233
414 E. Clark St.
Vermillion, SD 57069-2307
605.677.5297 (Phone)
605.677.6381 (Fax)
e-mail: brin@usd.edu


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2010 LBC Forms
Form
Word
PDF
Application Checklist
Application
Items to Bring
Roommate Request
Scholarship Application
Student Health Info
T-shirt Size Form

Click on the Word symbol () or the Adobe PDF symbol () next to
the form you need to download that form.



The 2010 camp is tentatively scheduled for July 11-16

Thi camp theme will be "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."

You can find out more by looking at the 2007 camp brochure under the Brochures tab.




PRINTABLE BROCHURES (pdf)

2009 2008 2007 2006

2005 2004 2003 2002

 

SPONSORS

The Lawrence Brothers Science Camp was initiated by a designated gift from the John H. & Amy Bowles Lawrence Foundation to the University of South Dakota Foundation. The camp is further supported by the USD Foundation through a grant from Battelle, an international science and technology enterprise, and by SD BRIN.

 

Battelle SD BRIN