This program has been run by the UWEC Mathematics Department over the past fifteen years. It is currently suffering from funding problems, and it looks like this year may be the last year. The instrutor is Don Reynolds. The Summer Institute provides children in the Chippewa Valley with opportunties to take enrichment courses in arts, sciences, technology, and languages in a structure that emphasizes fun, fast-paced and investigative laboratory or workshop methods. Courses are taught by area teachers and community resource people and assiosted by UWEC students.
Student select their courses based on talent, high interest or ability in a topic.
Students should have a high reading ability and other basic skills appropriate to the course they select and should be mature, self-motivated learners working at or above their grade level. Two sessions of two weeks each are held each summer. Students who qualify can also receive financial aid. The Girls in Science Program is for talented girls who are interested in science and will be going into grades six through eight. This program will offer intensive academic experiences in such areas as physics, mathematics, engineering, occupational therapy and medical lab sciences just to name a few.