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La Universidad de Kentucky abre inscripciones para Enviropods, un programa de campamentos de ciencias climáticas gratuitos para estudiantes de séptimo y octavo grado, que se realizarán en Hazard (14-16 de julio), Frankfort (21-23 de julio) y Somerset (28-30 de julio), donde los jóvenes aprenderán a rastrear inundaciones, mapear deslizamientos de tierra y analizar tormentas usando drones, realidad virtual y otras tecnologías modernas. El programa, financiado por la iniciativa de la Fundación Nacional de Ciencias de 20 millones de dólares llamada KY NSF EPSCoR CLIMBS, es una colaboración entre ocho instituciones de educación superior de Kentucky y bibliotecas públicas, diseñado para aumentar la resiliencia climática del estado adaptándose a los peligros específicos de cada región.
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The University of Kentucky is opening registration for the next round of Enviropods, a free summer program that teaches middle schoolers to track floods, map landslides and analyze storms through hands-on scientific research.
Following earlier sessions in Hopkinsville and Owensboro, the three-day camps will visit Hazard on July 14-16, Frankfort on July 21-23, and Somerset on July 28-30. Sessions run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, with lunch and snacks provided.
The program is open to Kentucky residents entering seventh or eighth grade this fall, and each camp is limited to 20 students. Registration is available at ees.as.uky.edu/enviropods or by contacting [email protected].
Enviropods is funded by the KY NSF EPSCoR CLIMBS project, a $20 million, five-year National Science Foundation initiative aimed at advancing Kentucky’s climate resilience. The program is a collaborative effort among eight Kentucky higher education institutions and public libraries statewide.
Students receive hands-on training with modern technology, including flying drones to create three-dimensional surface maps and heat maps, building river gauges from magnetic door alarms, and experiencing severe weather simulation through virtual reality headsets. Summer Brown, director of Enviropods and senior lecturer in the UK College of Arts and Sciences Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, said the program is tailored to regional hazards.
“Kentucky is very geographically diverse, and that means that there’s going to be different hazards depending on where you are in the state,” Brown said. Many participating students live in or near areas recently affected by tornadoes and floods, she noted.
“The CLIMBS project allows Kentucky to transition from reacting to disasters toward building proactive resilience,” said Rodney Andrews, director of the UK Center for Applied Energy Research. “We are dedicated to being good stewards of this funding by ensuring our research yields tangible outcomes for local communities and helps Kentuckians help themselves.”
This article was generated by AI (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001) based on source material from University of Kentucky News, enriched with 2 web searches. The original source is available at https://uknow.uky.edu/research/registration-open-enviropods-july-summer-camps.
