Summer Boot Camp
When: June-July (Monday through Friday)
Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: SCALE-UP Room, CCSB. G.0706A, UTEP Campus
Contact: Evely Lopez, Educational Outreach Coordinator
The BUILDing SCHOLARS Boot Camp is a rigorous three-week intensive college prep program in which participants receive exposure to the following:
- Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR)—a required training component of BUILD
- College-level prep in statistics, reading comprehension and calculus
- Team building
- Training in financial literacy, healthy living, stress management
- Introduction to careers in biomedicine
- Tours of the UTEP labs with professors
- Mandatory lab trainings and certifications (e.g., for handling materials, human/animal safety)
Tentative Schedule
Week 1:
| Time | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Icebreakers/ Photos |
Ropes Team Building |
Calculus | Calculus | Calculus |
| 10:30 a.m. – noon | Program Expectations |
Ropes Team Building |
Calculus | Calculus | Calculus |
| noon – 1 p.m. | LUNCH (on your own) |
LUNCH (on your own) |
LUNCH (on your own) |
LUNCH (on your own) |
LUNCH (on your own) |
| 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Pre–test | Financial Literacy |
Summer Group Project Expectations |
Group Work |
Post–test |
| 2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. | Learning Styles |
Stress Management Workshop |
Calculus Exercises |
Calculus Exercises |
Dismissal and provide papers for next week’s journal club |
Week 2:
| Time | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Pre-test | Reading Skills/ Text Comprehension |
Writing Skills |
Presentation Skills |
OLI from CMU |
| 10:30 a.m. – noon | Journal Club |
Journal Club |
Summary of Paper |
Present a Paper |
OLI from CMU |
| noon – 1 p.m. | LUNCH (on your own) |
LUNCH (on your own) |
LUNCH (on your own) |
LUNCH (on your own) |
LUNCH (on your own) |
| 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Pre-test and Computing Resources |
Computing Resources (network from home, blackboard, library, WI-FI) |
Workshop: Career in Biomedicine |
Tour of BUILD Labs |
Post–test |
| 2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. | Pre–test and MS Excel Suite Assessment |
MS Excel/ PowerPoint |
Group Work |
Tour of BUILD Labs |
Group Work |
Week 3:
| Time | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Pre–test | Statistics | Statistics | Post–test | |
| 10:30 a.m. – noon | Statistics | Statistics | Statistics Exercises |
Group Presentations |
|
| noon – 1 p.m. | LUNCH (on your own) |
LUNCH (on your own) |
LUNCH (on your own) |
LUNCH (on your own) |
|
| 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Nutrition and Wellness |
Statistics Exercises |
Tour of BUILD labs |
Group Presentations |
|
| 2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. | Lab Safety |
Group Work |
Group Work |
Calculus Exercises |
