In its second year, Rice ELITE Tech Summer camp increased enrollment to 360 students, with students joining from 27 states and three countries. The camp, which ran four consecutive weeks in June, also introduced scholarship opportunities to Houston-area students, with 60 students joining camp through this program.
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RCEL’s online camp offers high school students technical, leadership skills
“Our goal at the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL) was to create an environment where students can learn technical and leadership skills at an elite, Rice-like, online engineering camp, one with a low student-teacher ratio,” said C. Fred Higgs III, RCEL faculty director, vice provost for academic affairs and John and Ann Doerr Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
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High school students are ELITE leaders at Rice
Inspired and a little impatient, Callia Bast, a high-school senior from Miami, Fla., collected her team’s supply of polystyrene foam, moved to another table and assembled a box with the aid of a hot-glue gun.
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