Responding to intensified demand for high-level summer camps in science, technology, engineering and math—STEM—ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ is launching a program for rising high school juniors, modeled in part on the institute’s highly successful Operation Catapult program for rising high school seniors.

Project Select, a week-long residential experience, will be filled with immersive, hands-on projects under the mentorship of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ professors, and is specially designed for high school students who have completed the sophomore year and will be a junior during the 2019-20 school year. The projects will showcase how science and engineering principles can be applied to solve challenging problems. The students’ solutions will be tested using state-of-the-art equipment.

For years parents have clamored for an expansion of Operation Catapult or a similar offering into earlier grades. Operation Catapult, at 52 years old, is one of the oldest science and technology camps in the nation, and has developed a reputation for combining fun with challenging exposure to STEM concepts under the tutelage of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ faculty. It attracts students from across the globe who have completed their junior year of high school or equivalent.

Project Select will take place June 23 to June 29 at ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ. The cost for the residential experience is $1,450 per student.

Admission is selective and there are a limited number of registration opportunities available this year. Registration requires a recommendation from a high school counselor or teacher and a student’s high school transcript that includes first-semester grades from the sophomore year. Homeschooled students must file a recommendation from a professor, employer, activity organizer or someone else outside the home.

Program and registration information is available at rose-hulman.edu/select. Students and parents also may contact Rene Hankins, ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ’s director of pre-college outreach, at 812-877-8220.