Summer@IMSA Residential Programs
Follow along with our student adventures in learning!
8th – 9th Grade Programs
Physiology and Biomedical Engineering
- 7.28.23 – Physiology and Biomedical Engineering July 28, 2023 - An exciting finish to our wonderful week with our parent open house!! After an intense and (hopefully) packed week of learning, students were able to show off all the great… Continue Reading
- 7.27.23 – Physiology and Biomedical Engineering July 27, 2023 - Today the students learned about hydrogels and their importance as an emerging therapeutic option for tissue repair and drug delivery. They made their own version of a type of hydrogel… Continue Reading
- 7.26.23 – Physiology and Biomedical Engineering July 26, 2023 - A full work day was in store for our students today as they used the bulk of their class period to continue designing & engineering their Digestion Invention project as… Continue Reading
- 7.25.23 – Physiology and Biomedical Engineering July 25, 2023 - Today our students delved more into understanding the physiological aspects of the digestive system by learning about the magic of enzymes and how these special proteins are able to help… Continue Reading
- 7.24.23 – Physiology and Biomedical Engineering July 24, 2023 - Today our students got the chance to learn about digestive system anatomy in the most hands-on way possible – (short of getting a ride on the Magic School Bus…): Fetal… Continue Reading
- 7.14.23 – Avantor Integrated Science Program July 14, 2023 - Today was the last day of the Integrated Science program. All of the students have enjoyed it and seemed genuinely sad that it’s over! This morning, students finalized and practiced… Continue Reading
- 7.13.23 – Avantor Integrated Science Program July 13, 2023 - This afternoon, students put their newfound knowledge about mixtures, substances dissolving and freezing point -- to name a few of the topics they have explored this week -- by making… Continue Reading
- 7.12.23 – Avantor Integrated Science Program July 12, 2023 - Today students learned more about the process of photosynthesis, and the many factors that can affect it. They then measured the rate of photosynthesis in hornwort, a small aquatic plant,… Continue Reading
- 7.11.23 – Avantor Integrated Science Program July 11, 2023 - Today our students trekked out to one of IMSA’s best kept secrets – the “No Pond" (thusly named on an early campus map to keep students away from it!) –… Continue Reading
- 7.10.23 – Avantor Integrated Science Program July 10, 2023 - Last night students moved in and got settled in for a week of hands-on learning and exploration on IMSA’s campus in Aurora!! Today our scientists reviewed lab safety expectations and… Continue Reading
Genetics: Nature or Nurture
- 7.21.23 – Genetics: Nature or Nurture July 21, 2023 - After a week of hard work, exploration, and discovery, campers performed a protein purification process to isolate the GFP (green fluorescent protein) product from our bacterial transformation experiment. Our budding… Continue Reading
- 7.20.23 – Genetics: Nature or Nurture July 20, 2023 - Also, the campers continued their explorations of drosophila melanogaster – the common fruit fly (a widely-used model organism in biological studies). Throughout the week, campers have studied normal fruit flies… Continue Reading
- 7.19.23 – Genetics: Nature or Nurture July 19, 2023 - They say “time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana.” Today, in one session our budding geneticists were able to make observations of different Drosophila melanogaster (fruit… Continue Reading
- 7.18.23 – Genetics: Nature or Nurture July 18, 2023 - After extracting our own DNA from our cheek cells yesterday, we performed a lab technique that makes thousands of copies of part of our genome (Polymerase Chain Reaction, or PCR)… Continue Reading
- 7.17.23 – Genetics: Nature or Nurture July 17, 2023 - Genetics has become a cutting-edge science, not only in the field of biology, but also because of the enormous social and medical reach of its discoveries. This week, students will… Continue Reading
Avantor Integrated Science Program
- 7.14.23 – Avantor Integrated Science Program July 14, 2023 - Today was the last day of the Integrated Science program. All of the students have enjoyed it and seemed genuinely sad that it’s over! This morning, students finalized and practiced… Continue Reading
- 7.13.23 – Avantor Integrated Science Program July 13, 2023 - This afternoon, students put their newfound knowledge about mixtures, substances dissolving and freezing point -- to name a few of the topics they have explored this week -- by making… Continue Reading
- 7.12.23 – Avantor Integrated Science Program July 12, 2023 - Today students learned more about the process of photosynthesis, and the many factors that can affect it. They then measured the rate of photosynthesis in hornwort, a small aquatic plant,… Continue Reading
- 7.11.23 – Avantor Integrated Science Program July 11, 2023 - Today our students trekked out to one of IMSA’s best kept secrets – the “No Pond" (thusly named on an early campus map to keep students away from it!) –… Continue Reading
- 7.10.23 – Avantor Integrated Science Program July 10, 2023 - Last night students moved in and got settled in for a week of hands-on learning and exploration on IMSA’s campus in Aurora!! Today our scientists reviewed lab safety expectations and… Continue Reading