Citizen Science Summer Camps

Each summer we host Citizen Science Camps for elementary, middle school, and high school girls who are underrepresented in science fields. Check out what our participants learn and current camp offerings.

Camp Objectives

This video shares student interviews from our 2022 Citizen Science Camp with Bakersfield City School District. This camp integrated the Seek by iNaturalist, Optional Objective 2, and a local focus on engineering with Optional Objective 3.

As a result of participating in the summer camp, participants will be able to:

  1. Define global citizen science

  2. Disrupt stereotypes about women and girls, especially in relation to science identity

  3. Contribute to at least one of the following global citizen science projects.

    • Marine Debris tracker

    • iNaturalist/Seek

    • Instant Wild

  4. Examine the computer science mindsets and competencies embedded in each citizen science project

  5. Use new or existing global citizen science data to define a problem of environmental concern.

  6. Map the location of the problem of environmental concern

  7. Imagine a data-informed solution to the problem of environmental concern

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Each weeklong camp can also choose two of the following objectives. Camps that run for two weeks or longer can choose all three.

  1. Optional Objective | Create a small-scale experiment to test a solution to a problem of environmental concern.

  2. Optional Objective | Tell the story of an environmental problem, solution, and experiment through coding and robotics

  3. Optional Objective | Create your own, local, school-specific objective

Summer 2023 Camps

Students created their own promotional video for this camp, which integrated Marine Debris Tracker, Optional Objective 2, and a local focus on engineering with Optional Objective 3.

1) Kern High School District | This camp is for High School Students and will focus on the San Joaquin Valley Kit Fox through our partnership with Dr. Luke Hall (2022 Citizen Scientist Project Teaching Fellow) and Instant Wild.


2) Greenfield Union School District | This camp is designed for middle school students and will focus on biodiversity with iNaturalist, trash pollution with Marine Debris Tracker, and Endangered Species with Instant Wild.


3) Bakersfield City School District | This camp is designed for upper elementary students and will focus on biodiversity with iNaturalist, trash pollution with Marine Debris Tracker, and Endangered Species with Instant Wild.