When: June-July (Monday through Friday)
Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: SCALE-UP Room, CCSB. G.0706A, UTEP Campus
Contact: Evelyn Lopez elopez5@utep.edu, 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)