Grace Place students kept their mental gears turning this summer at the Grace Place Summer STEM Camp. The students and teachers worked hard to beat what has come to be known as “the summer slump,” an unfortunate effect of those long summer months away from a classroom. The results are in, and though not all [...]
Wasmer, Schroeder & Company (WSC) hosted 40 Grace Place middle school summer STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Camp students for a tutorial of a day in the life of money management. Held throughout the WSC’s office, including its trading floor, students were exposed to much more than just an overview of the firm’s landscape. [...]
Forty future leaders toured the Collier County Landfill and Renewable Energy Facility to learn about green job opportunities at Waste Management. The middle school students are participating in a summer STEM enrichment curriculum through Grace Place for Children and Families. The goal of the program is to educate the students on different career opportunities and [...]
Participants in Grace Place’s STEM Camp morphed into CSI investigators Wednesday during an interactive presentation by Collier County Sheriff’s Office Chief of Community Engagement Stephanie Spell. The 40 middle-school campers donned latex gloves and learned what it’s like to work in a Crime Scene unit. During their visit campers performed three exercises designed to give [...]
IBERIABANK hosted 40 Grace Place middle school summer STEM Camp students for a bank tour on Monday, June 17, 2013. Held at IBERIABANK’s Naples headquarters at 2150 Goodlette Road North, students were exposed to much more than just dollars and cents. Professionals from IBERIABANK shared the fundamentals of how a bank operates, career opportunities available [...]
THANK YOU! To THE COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF NAPLES Upper School students from The Community School of Naples hosted Grace Place elementary summer campers during Teen Angel Camp, June 10-13. Classes included math, reading, science, computer, art and physical education, based on daily themes of space, pirates, circus and sports.
It's 'ready, set, go' time for our 10 summer college interns as 142 elementary and middle school summer campers arrive on campus. With a varied background of career studies from business to education, psychology to seminary, this year's interns attend different colleges and universities throughout Florida and as far away as Skidmore College in Up-State [...]