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 at work on the 37" cyclotron at the University of California in Berkeley in 1937.	Dr. John H. Lawrence in his lab, January 1956.