Yorktown Secondary Campus (YSC) welcomed incoming 6th through 8th grade students, starting June 2, to its annual STEM Camp, a fourweek summer enrichment program focused on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. The camp offered an engaging and immersive learning environment, averaging about ten enthusiastic campers each day.
Throughout the program, studentstackled a wide range of STEMbased missions that challenged their cre- ativity, collaboration, and critical thinking skills. Among the first tasks, students built model ecosystems— only to discover that a road would soon cut through their design. The challenge then became how to minimize environmental damage and protect wildlife, simulating real-world ecological dilemmas.
In another mission, each student was assigned a location and a natural disaster scenario. Their task: to engineer a safe, portable power source suitable for a home in crisis. Campers also experimented with chemistry, creating secret birthday messages that could only be revealed through chemical reactions.
