Science-Loving Kids Stoked by BME STEAM Camp

For the second year running, students in the UA Biomedical Engineering Society partnered with the Autism Society of Southern Arizona and the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences to host a group of 9- to 16-year-old kids for hands-on experiments in the Bioscience Research Labs building.

This Saturday event – called STEAM camp because it incorporates art into science, technology, engineering and math – brings campers of all scientific knowledge levels together with club mentors to build robotic hands, extract strawberry DNA and create patterns with magnets.

“It is always incredible to watch young kids with older mentors that are engaged in the same thing,” said Brie Seward, associate director of the Autism Society of Southern Arizona. “The students in the BME club are the best mentors for these kids.”