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BRUNSWICK — St. John’s Catholic School will host a junior engineering and mathematics camp during April vacation, April 16-20.

According to a release from the school, “ students are exposed to an incentive program to grasp science, technology, engineering, and mathematics concepts with handson, naturally motivating building sets, programming software, and curriculum relevant activity materials.

“We offer challenges and adventure activities that build confidence, cooperation, teamwork, creativity, trust, decision making, conflict resolution, resource management, communication, effective feedback, and problem solving skills and help students see the connection of modular origami and mathematics to robotics design and modular origami construction.”

Camp is for grades 3 to 8 and will run from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.

Among the week’s offerings will be Lego robotics, problem solving, puzzles and modular origami.

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The program will be led by Richard Eason and Eva J. Szillery. Eason is associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and has been the academic advisor of the Junior Engineering Program, a pilot, a life long puzzle designer and collector, and an Eagle Scout. Szillery, a mathematician, is the academic director of the Junior Engineering programs and the Maine state director of the American Mathematics Competitions.

They’ll be assisted by two electrical and computer engineering students and two former campers.

Camp costs $250. For more information, contact Eva Szillery at evaszillerymmsets@ me. acadia.net or 356-0207.



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