About the Young Physicist Camp

Supercharge your ideas! This weeklong summer day camp for students entering grades 9 through 12 combines renewable energy, engineering, innovation, and hands-on fabrication. Explore how clean-energy technologies work, then put your ideas into motion by designing, building, and testing energy-powered cars.

At camp, you will:

  • Interact with local experts to learn about renewable energy, engineering, and the innovation process, from developing an idea to testing and improving a working design

  • Conduct hands-on experiments with hydrogen fuel cells and batteries, and use 3D printing to turn your designs into real components

  • Work with a team to design, build, and optimize two working cars鈥攐ne powered by a hydrogen fuel cell and the other by batteries鈥攁nd put your designs to the test through performance challenges

Campus

Camp details

Who:
Students entering or in grades 9 through 12

When:
July 19 to 23, 2027, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Where:


Cost:
Before April 30: $598 per person
After April 30: $698 per person
 

Registration opens October 26, 2026.

 

Refund policy

Before April 30, we will charge you a $100 cancellation fee and then refund the remainder of your registration cost. After April 30, we will refund you 50% of your registration cost. After June 30, we will no longer offer refunds.

Scholarships

Scholarships are available based on financial need and are awarded on a first-come, first-served basis. We are a participant in the , which will cover the full camp tuition for those who qualify.

The scholarship application deadline is March 30, 2027.

锘縏o apply, take a few minutes to fill out and obtain the following two documents from a school official: (1) confirmation that the student鈥檚 household receives one of the following benefits鈥擲NAP, TANF, or FDPIR (or mail physical copies of the family's 2024 tax forms to Dr. Lifeng Dong via USPS); and (2) verification that the student has an overall 鈥淐鈥 average or its equivalent in their most recent academic term for Science. Please send these documents to Dr. Lifeng Dong at ldong03@hamline.edu no later than April 15, 2027.

Sponsor

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Jerry Artz STEM Scholarship for 麻豆视频APK undergraduate students

Those who participate in one or both of these physics summer camps will be eligible for the Jerry Artz STEM Scholarship when they apply and are accepted to 麻豆视频APK for undergraduate study. The scholarship may be renewed each year as long as the student remains enrolled at 麻豆视频APK and maintains a cumulative GPA of 3.25 or higher.

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