RASSI RASEM - Squared

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RASSI (RASEM²'s Summer Science Institute) 2004

The summer science institute had 3 summer camps:

Fuel Cells and Robitics

It was conducted at NMSU main campus from June 21 to June 25, 2004.

Activities for the students included:

Construction of fuel cells robots
Robots were built by high school students and programmed by computers. Five teams were set-up and a teacher assigned to each team.
A field trip to " Insights El Paso Science Museum , El Paso , TX.
Created a video of all activities during the week of RASSI.

Participants included 19 students (11 identified with disabilities). Along with the students we had 1 director, 1 co-director, 5 teachers, 1 technical consultant, 4 RASEM Squared project assistants, 1 peer mentor, 2 RASEM Squared staff and 1 RASEM Squared student staff.

The RASSI Staff would like to thank the following businesses that donated food for lunches for the 19 students and 16 staff of 2004 camp.

   Peter Piper Pizza, Las Cruces
   Domino's Pizza, Las Cruces
   Albertson's Store #925, Las Cruces
   MVD Express
   DG's Incorporated, Las Cruces
   Baskin Robbins, Las Cruces
   Hooters Restaurant of Las Cruces
   Allen Theatres Administrative Office
   Pic Quik Stores, Inc. No. 14, Las Cruces

We would also like to thank the following individuals from NMSU who presented research and solar distillation experiments, use of computer & Lego labs, and demonstration of the Segway:

   Shuguang Deng - CE Professor
   Ron Polka - Southwest Technology
   Holly Rickets, Dr. Craig Rickets and Staff - ET
   Andre Leona - Civil Engineering
   Yu-Ping Tang, Aaron Cardie & Ryan Pelking - M-TEC

Sceince with a Flare

It was conducted at Canutillo from June 14 to June 18, 2004.

Activities for the students included:

Learning about chemical reactions by building CO 2 rockets out of film canisters.
Building kites and studying about force.
Learn about rocket design and build solid fuel rockets.
Safety training to launch rockets.

Participants included 37 students (29 identified with disabilities). Along with the students we had 5 teachers and 5 high school mentors.

Check out the presentation on Canutillo RASSI Summer Science Camp .

Science doo Math Bo hol aah

It was conducted at Shiprock from June 26 to June 30, 2004.

Participants included 24 students (all identified with disabilities). Along with the students we had 11 teachers.

Thanks for all the support that made the year 2004 RASSI Camp great!!

Check out RASSI 2005 Summer Camp to know more about it.

Check out RASSI 2003 Summer Camp to know more about it.

Check out RASSI 2002 Summer Camp to know more about it.

Check out this summary of Summer Program to know more about previous RASSI camps since 1995.

“This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Cooperative agreement No. HRD 0124198 and HRD 0622930.”

“Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.”

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