The Southern California Chinese-American Environmental Protection Association (SCCAEPA) and the Renewable Urban Pioneers (RUP) are very excited to announce the first youth environment summer camp for 2021. The camp is for middle-school and high-school students with interests in environmental topics in our community. Students will form teams to conduct self-directed research and design projects. Environmental professionals from SCCAEPA will coach the teams, provide pertinent information, and give guidance to teams’ research efforts. Students will have the opportunity to integrate the knowledge they gain from the camp into real-world environmental topics and propose their own feasible solutions. The camp will also identify each student’s leadership skill and reinforce it through the project. The project topics for this year include water resource management and conservation, groundwater issues, water treatment, and emerging contaminants. The teams will have field trip opportunities to demonstration sites located in southern California. Each team will enter into a competition by summarizing its research and findings, and presenting it to a group of judges at the end of the camp.
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