This year, Peaks will have four groups of three classes each. Each group will have a maximum of 10 students each. Each group will have their own staff member to escort them to workshops and spend lunch and free time with them. These students will stay together throughout the day, attending workshops, eating lunch and spending free time together. We will have little to no intermingling of groups with each other.

Group Name 8:30 - 10:00 am 10:20-11:50 am 1:15-2:45pm

Diamond Group

Group Full

 Some Like it Hot!
Exploring the Limits of Life on Earth Take a virtual research trip to some of Yellowstone National Park's most remote thermal areas to explore the unseen world of extreme microorganisms. As a Yellowstone scientist, you will gather samples and collect measurements to identify organisms from Yellowstone's extreme hot spring environments and learn about the microbial world around you.
Rebecca Mueller

Neuroscience and Self-care: Understand Yourself at a Cellular Level 
Learn about how your brain and nervous system create your behavior, emotions, and personality. Put your knowledge into action with self-care and self-discovery activities, including how a personality test can help you find your passion and how to actually change the cellular connections in your brain with mindfulness.
Zariah Tolman

Outdoor Survival
Could you survive being lost in the wild? Combine your survival skills and naturalist knowledge by observing and analyzing in-depth science concepts in nature. Learn the vital interactions between flora and fauna and how a human presence impacts these relationships.
MOSS Instructor
Emerald Group

 

DIY Solar Power
In this workshop, we will explore how to convert the Sun's energy into useful electricity. How will you harness the Sun's power?
Blake Wiehe

 Science Storytelling 
If Bill Nye is your hero, then this is the workshop for you! This world needs scientists who can actually explain science well. Learn how to get people excited about science the same way writers at Disney do it - by telling a great story, and gaining confidence doing so.
Mackenna Landis		 Cooking with Science 
Foods are amazing materials. We encounter them every day while cooking or simply eating and enjoying them. For this reason and many others, foods can be instructiove, and can be used to teach us valuable scientific concepts which may otherwise seem daunting. 
James Wilking, and Connie Chang

Sapphire Group

Group Full

 How Computers Think 
How do the same circuits that use a switch to turn on a lightbulb relate to our phones and computers? This workshop will show students how the circuits in our phones and computers work by building some of those circuits ourselves, from simple switches to digital devices.
Mackenna Landis		 DIY Solar Power
In this workshop, we will explore how to convert the Sun's energy into useful electricity. How will you harness the Sun's power?
Blake Wiehe		 Neuroscience and Self-care: Understand Yourself at a Cellular Level
Learn about how your brain and nervous system create your behavior, emotions, and personality. Put your knowledge into action with self-care and self-discovery activities, including how a personality test can help you find your passion and how to actually change the cellular connections in your brain with mindfulness.
Zariah Tolman

Ruby Group

Group Full

The Science of Food
We'll put our food under a microscope - literally! We'll discover crystals and cells that make up our food and what happnes when we cool food. What happens to starch and sugars in our boddies after we eat and when we exercise? Get set for an exciting all-round experience with how food works.
Christa Merzdorf

 NASA Mission to Mars
Take a trip to Mars and follow in the steps of the Perseverance Rover. Program your own robotic rover to face challenges navigating the landscape and craters to Mars. Fly a drone on a special mission and look for signs of alien life.
Shawna Wright		 Infectious Diseases: the Microbes Among Us
We live in a world filled with microbes! Some are harmless, but some can be deadly. In this workshop, you will learn how to grow and identify some of the microbes that make us sick and learn about the ways that doctors and microbiologists fight infectious diseases!
Jovanka Voyich

 

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