MCC to offer nine summer career academies for students
Create animation or a solar oven?
Learn how fingerprints help to solve a crime or how to take a photograph, create a video or design an architectural floor plan?
Macomb Community College will be offering nine hands-on career academies this summer and these are just a few of the activities students will explore in a variety of career fields.
Most of the camps are held from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday starting in June and are open to students in sixth-through eleventh grades. Cost is $99. The exceptions are Camp Scrubs, which meets 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and the two-day Forge the Future Camp, which costs $75.
This summer’s lineup includes:
Camp Scrubs: Grades six — 10, June 17 — 20; Center Campus
A health career academy, Camp Scrubs will focus on hands-on activities in Macomb’s state of-the-art laboratories and Simulation Learning Center. Participants will explore health careers including nursing; respiratory, physical and occupational therapy; radiology; laboratory science; medical assisting and surgical technology.
CSI at the PSI:
Grades six — eight, June 17 — 20: Grades nine — 11, June 24 — 27; East Campus
Participants will learn from the experts how features such as footprints, fingerprints and blood splatter are used to solve crimes. For the grades nine through 11 session, students will also visit the Macomb County
Medical Examiner’s office. Makerspace Career Academy:
Grades six — 10, June 24 — 27, South Campus
Participants will learn the intricacies of 3D printing, small single-board computers, and virtual and augmented reality. They will also learn about and apply computer-aided design and artificial intelligence.
MACA Camp:
Grades six — 10, June 24 — 27, South Campus
Participants will learn about the world of media arts, including photography, video, illustration, interactive design, animation and design.
Law Enforcement/ Fire/EMS Academy:
Grades six — 10, July 8 — 11, East Campus
Participants will learn about the day-to-day activities and training requirements for each of these career fields. The final day of the academy culminates in a disaster scenario that will demonstrate how firefighters, police and EMS work together to save lives and property. The academy will meet on the college’s East Campus in Clinton Township.
Architecture and Construction Camp:
Grades six — 10, July 15 — 18, South Campus
Through hands-on educational projects, participants will learn about the latest technologies in architecture and construction. They will engage in a variety of projects, including designing a small architectural floor plan, creating an electrical project, a digital 3D model and create a solar oven.
Students in this academy will enjoy a hands-on experience learning the steps required to produce a studio quality model including building an armature, adding clay and using sculpting tools to craft a model from an approved design rendering.
Culinary Arts Camp:
Grades six — 10, July 29 — Aug. 1, Center Campus
This hands-on academy will provide a glimpse of a what a day in a commercial kitchen is like. Participants will experience both hot food kitchen operations and pastry baking. No prior culinary experience is necessary.
Forge the Future Camp:
Grades six — 10, August 5 — 6, South Campus
In this unique two-day camp, participants will learn how modern-day blacksmiths employ forging to create beautiful and functional works and will be able to take home their own forging.
Macomb Community College’s campuses at which the academies will be held include:
• Center Campus: 44575 Garfield Rd., Clinton Township
•East Campus: 21901 Dunham Rd., Clinton Township
• South Campus: 14500 E. 12 Mile Rd., Warren
For more information or to register for one of the summer career academies, go to wce.macomb.edu and select youth programs under personal enrichment, then choose career academies. To register for Forge the Future, go to fierf.org/ kids/summer-camps.