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Educational Opportunities for Kids & Teens
Educational Opportunities:
- 4-H Youth Development
Helps youth develop through the mentoring and involvement of parents, teens, and other volunteers. They involve youth in organizing and conducting learning experiences in a community setting.
- Arizona Model United Nations
A simulation of events and procedures in the United Nations that shows high school and college students the importance of the United Nations and the process of diplomacy.
- Arizona State Museum Education Programs
Learn about the history and cultural traditions of peoples of the Southwest through engaging field trip programs.
- College Preparation Programs
Programs that help college bound students develop skills they need to succeed at UA.
- Independent Study through Correspondence
Hundreds of university, elementary, middle-school, and high school-level courses, all taught by expert faculty and instructors.
- Courts-R-Us
Provides an opportunity for high school students from low-income families to work in the legal field during the summer.
- Girls in the SYSTEM
An education program for low-income, elementary school girls in mathematics, science, engineering and technology.
- Honors Summer of Excellence
Participants sign up for one or two classes and earn three to six units of college credit. Open to students entering 11 & 12 grade.
- iD Tech Camps: Hands-On Tech Fun!
Ages 7-17 create websites with Flash animation, video games, digital movies, robots and programs with C++ or Java. Students create a project by the end of the weeklong program.
- MedCamp
A three-day summer camp designed to introduce high school juniors and seniors to health careers and the challenges that face the health care system today.
- Med-Start Summer Program
Med-Start is a six week program designed for high school juniors in Arizona who would like to pursue a career in medicine. It is available in Tucson and Phoenix.
- PBS Kids
An interactive learning site for children that includes games, stories, music and guides to their favorite PBS shows.
- Physics is Phun
Each month, students are invited to the Physics Department to tour laboratories, meet with professors and students, and sit in on classes and labs.
- Science Olympiad
Tournaments that provide rigorous academic interscholastic competitions that consist of a series of individual and team events for High School and Middle School Students.
- Storytime Around the World
The second Saturday of every month. Located inside the UA Bookstore.
- Student Across Borders
Welcomes Hispanic and other minority high school students in their sophomore and junior years to the UA campus for Earth science studies.
- Summer Engineering Academy (SEA)
Gives qualified high school students an awareness of the state of the art in design and manufacturing. Open to grades 9-12.
- Summer Institute on Medical Ignorance
Open to disadvantaged high school students with minimum 3.0 GPA and to K-12 educators who teach students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
- Teen English Program
Offers intensive English language instruction to teenagers.
- Women in Science and Engineering
A program where UA students and middle and high school students can participate in various activities to motivate young women to enter fields of science, engineering and technology.
Tutoring:
- CATS Literacy Workshop
Students taking courses in the Department of Language, Reading and Culture in the College of Education provide literacy tutoring services to the Tucson community.
- Drop-in Mathematics Tutoring
Designed to help mathematics students with their homework. This program is a collaborative effort with the school districts, the libraries, and the neighborhood centers in the city.
- Lawyers for Literacy
Law students provide one-on-one tutoring for elementary school students from October to May.
- Math Corps Program
Mathematics students from the UA tutor mathematics in secondary schools.
- UA Academic Departments may also provide tutoring services. For a list of academic departments, see:
