Academics

High School Academy expands Penn State Behrend summer program

New courses include shipwreck mapping and R/C quadcopter photography

Penn State Behrend's College for Kids program offers more than 100 classes, including all the summer-camp standards: guitar, watercolors, scrapbooking and rocketry. New courses this year include shipwreck analysis and aerial photography using R/C quadcopters. Credit: Penn State Behrend / Penn StateCreative Commons

Registration is now open for the Penn State Behrend High School Academy, a career exploration program that offers summer courses in business, engineering and digital arts. The week-long classes, which are taught on campus by Penn State Behrend faculty members, allow students in grades nine to 12 to experience firsthand the college majors they are considering.

The classes include Web design, video production, VEX robotics and embedded computer programming. Students also can work with programmable logic controllers, which automate traffic lights, elevators and roller coasters, and can compete in a Wall Street portfolio challenge.

A full list of courses is at Behrend.psu.edu/academy.

The academy expands Penn State Behrend’s College for Kids program, which offers more than 100 summer courses for children between the ages of 6 and 14. The one-week sessions begin June 15 and continue through July 31. Before- and after-class care is available; lunch plans for Bruno’s Café also can be purchased through the program.

More than 1,100 students participate in the six-week program, which offers all the summer-camp standards – guitar, watercolors, scrapbooking and rocketry – and unique classes in hoop dance, stop-motion animation and the science of crime scene analysis. New courses this year include shipwreck mapping with underwater robots and aerial photography using R/C quadcopters.

For the full course catalog, or to register for classes, go to Behrend.psu.edu/kids or call 814-898-6871.

Last Updated May 6, 2015