Middle School (Grades 6-8)
Outdoor Adventures
July 12-17
Explore the beautiful Eastern Upper Peninsula while participating in outdoor adventures. Your days will be spent canoeing, hiking, rappelling, and developing outdoor survival skills with faculty from the LSSU Recreation Management program.
Cost: $575 live on campus; $350 commute to campus
Instructor: Dr. Sally Childs (Recreation Management)
Dance
New Date: July 12-17
Refine your individual skills while working on the elements of ballet, modern, jazz, Highland and Scottish Country dance with the dance faculty at LSSU. There will be considerable emphasis on stretch and flexibility.
Cost: $575 live on campus/ $350 commute to campus
Instructor: Deb Choszczyk (Dance)
Program Itinerary (pdf)
High School (Grades 9 -12)
Health Care Explorations
July 12-17
Explore nursing, exercise science, athletic training, physical therapy and paramedic technology at LSSU in our hands-on learning laboratories and at our local hospital. This camp is a great opportunity for those who are interested in careers in this growing field.
Cost: $575 live on campus; $350 commute to campus
Instructor: LSSU Faculty
Field Ecology
July 12-17
Field activities will include plant and animal identification,
landscape interpretation, habitat analysis, stream quality assessment, mammal
tracking, bird banding, fish capture, aquatic insect analysis,
night-time insect trapping and more. You'll do background research and
work up your field samples in our biology labs. Analyze
your data in our computer labs and learn how GIS and other computer
applications help in ecology and conservation biology.
Cost: $575 live on campus; $350 commute to camp
Instructor: Dr. Greg Zimmerman
Forensic Science
July 12-17
You will experience crime scene investigation from evidence collection (laboratory analysis) to the court room. You will be investigating a death caused by poisoning, suffocation, or natural causes. The students will be extracting tissue, looking for bodily fluids using monochromic light sources and other presumptive testing methods, fingerprinting, ballistics and trace testing. Instruments to be used include GC/MS, HPLC/PDA and FT-IR. GC/MS and FT-IR are the to most frequently used instruments in the crime lab. Each of the social and science concepts will be highlighted and discussed before and during the analyses. In conclusion, there will be a mock court set up for the students so they can present their finds.
Cost: $575 live on campus; $350 commute to campus
Instructors: Dr. Judy Westrick, Dr. Aaron Westrick
Biomedical Science
July 19-24
Labs will include dissections in the anatomy lab, experiments in the physiology lab, and DNA extraction in the genetics lab. Excellent camp for all who are interested in the science,medicine, and health professions.
Cost: $575 live on campus; $350 commute to campus
Instructors: Dr. Nancy Kirkpatrick, Dr. Barb Evans
Dance
New Date: July 12-17
Refine your individual skills while working on the elements of ballet, modern, jazz, Highland and Scottish Country dance with the dance faculty at LSSU. There will be considerable emphasis on stretch and flexibility.
Cost: $575 live on campus/ $350 commute to campus
Instructor: Deb Choszczyk (Dance)
Program Itinerary (pdf)
Fire Science for High School Juniors and Seniors
July 23-26
You will learn academic and basic hands-on training in vehicle extrication, search and rescue, water evolutions, rapid intervention team training, ventilation, and forcible entry. Note: For safety, real fire will not be used during the camp.
Open to: Students entering Grade 11 and 12
Cost: $200 which includes room and board (live on campus); $75 commute to campus
Instructor: Dr. James Schaefer (Fire Science)
Program Itinerary (pdf)
Fish Science
July 26-31
Set fyke nets and minnow traps, collect abiotic data, practice fish identification, predict population size from a sample, analyze diet and age of fish, mark-recapture analysis, learn differences in sampling gear and habitat types. Conduct research at the LSSU Aquatic Research Lab with LSSU Faculty.
Open to: Grades 8-12
Location: LSSU Campus
Cost: $575 live on campus; $350 commute to campus
Instructor: Dr. Geoff Steinhart (Fisheries and Wildlife Management)
Program Itinerary (pdf)
General Summer Camp Information
What is the daily schedule for the Middle School and High School
Summer Camps?
Sunday (Resident Student Schedule)
- 3-5 p.m. Registration
- 5 p.m. Meeting with counselors
(includes commuters)
- 5:30 p.m. Dinner
- 7 – 9:30 p.m. Recreational activities
- 9:30 – 10:30 p.m. Social time
- 10:30 p.m. In dorm room
Monday – Friday
- 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. Breakfast
- 9 a.m. – Noon Morning session
- Noon – 1:15 p.m. Lunch
- 1:30 – 4:30 p.m. Afternoon session
- 4:45 – 6 p.m. Dinner
- 6 – 9 p.m. Recreational activities
- 9 – 10 p.m. Social time on floor
- 10:30 In dorm room – bedtime
What will I be doing during summer camp evening recreation if I stay on campus at
LSSU?
Visit the Soo Locks, go out for ice cream, view a show at the
planetarium, play basketball, racquetball, swim and much more at LSSU’s
Athletic Complex. Your evening counselors will have many activities
planned for the week during summer camp. Some activities have a minimal cost to the
camper.
What supervision will there be?
A camp counselor will participate in all activities with the students.
We provide 24 hour supervision to our resident plan students while attending our summer camps.
What if the Summer Camp I sign up for is full?
If the summer camp is full, we will notify you and place your name on a
waiting list. Otherwise, we can help you find another summer camp offering
that may interest you. All money will be refunded if an opening doesn’t become available by the start date for
the summer camp offering you requested.
Hotel Special Rates
Best Western Rates
$70.00 per night plus 9% tax for 1 or 2 people.
An additional $10 per person in the room up to 4 people
Code: LSSU CAMP
Telephone: 1-800-297-2858
Park Inn Rates
For a STD1 (one queen bed) $55.00 + tax
For a STD2 (two double beds) $65.00 + tax
There is a 6% state tax and a 3% city tax.
Call the hotel direct to make a reservation, ask for the LSSU Summer
Camp rate or you can ask for the code H-LSSU.
Telephone: 906-632-6000
Holiday Inn Express Rate
$72.00 per night plus tax
Code: Superior Edventures
Telephone: 1-800-632-7879
How do I contact Superior Edventures Summer Camp?
LSSU Superior Edventures Summer Camp
Julia Roque
Cisler Center
650 W. Easterday Avenue
Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783
www.lssu.edu/summercamps
Email edventures@lssu.edu
Telephone 906-635-6673
Fax 906-635-2695
