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Biomedical Youth Summer Camp
BYP Summer Camp Information:

When:  TBA

Ages/grades:   Students MUST have finished Grade 4 by June 30th of camp year  - no exceptions - we cannot register younger students.

Registration: All applications must be mailed or faxed (NO EMAIL).  A confirmation will be emailed sent once a child is accepted.

Where: Bannatyne Campus, University of Manitoba

Drop off location:  TBA

Pick up:  TBA

The BYP Summer camp is an annual biomedical 5-day camp held at the Faculty
of Medicine, Brodie Centre, Health Sciences Campus, usually hosted in the last
week of July; it is free of charge to students, from grades 4-12, interested in science.
This camp, which started in 2006 with 15 youth participants, has now grown to
accommodate 220 Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students in 2010. Managing and
organizing the camp is made possible with help from volunteers. The volunteers
are recruited from graduate students, medical students, community groups, and
parents who accompany their children. The volunteers act as supervisors, activity
and session leaders, and chaperones. Several hands-on activities conducted at the
summer camp, since 2006, are as follows:

  • Blood typing
  • Fluorescent microscopy
  • Immunological techniques
  • Basic Anatomy
  • DNA extraction and separation
  • Fingerprint Analysis
  • Medical Simulation
  • DNA structure and function
  • Fundamentals of medical rehabilitation
  • Cell function dynamics
  • Protein analysis and biochemistry
  • Neuropathology
  • Cell Culture

 

Your school/ organization is invited to participate in this program. Please provide contact information of students who may be interested to the program coordinators

E-mail: byp.coordinator@gmail.com