ASM Student camps

Edit: This post was originally written a long while ago, back in the spring of 2020. I certainly was under the assumption that summer 2021 would be back to some sort of pre-Covid normal. As of today (1/18/21) the student camp schedule for 2021 has not been posted yet. It looks like the 2021 teacher camp schedule is planned to be fully virtual for 2021 (as it was in 2020), but I have no knowledge beyond what those webpages show.

It's that time of year when many students (and teachers) are starting to plan out the summer.

For teachers, I'll heartily recommend the ASM teacher materials camps. I've posted about them before.

I've also posted about the ASM student materials camps, too, but I've posted much less frequently about them - both because there are fewer of them and because I haven't ever been personally involved in those camps.

I thought I'd take a post today to rectify that and give you a whole bunch of student camp resources.

There's a video about what went on at the Eisenman camp in 2012. The Eisenman is the only ASM student camp that takes place at the ASM headquarters near Cleveland, OH, but there are about twenty other locations (appropriately, as of the summer of 2020) around the country.



This video goes through - as the title suggests - some of the legacy of the first ASM materials camp for students, the Eisenman at the ASM headquarters. They talk to some of the mentors, some former attendees who are now mentors, and ASM trustees about the history of, goals of, and - well - legacy of the Eisenman camp.



The ASM folks also interviewed some of the student attendees at the Eisenman camp one summer (including Lucas, who your friendly, neighborhood blogger was lucky enough to have taught at Princeton HS.). They, in the long run, offer probably the greatest testimonials as they lived the camp. The playlist (embedded above, click next video) also ends with a trio of videos showing some of the activities from the camp (metal casting, blacksmithing, and using a scanning electron microscope).


So, just what are materials camps? This video answers that both about the student and the teacher camps, focusing more on the student camps, though.

The camps are free. What do you have to lose?

Take a look at the student camp schedule for this summer - or the teacher camp schedule if that's more your speed.