Q -- Exactly what is CS-CAMP?

       A -- CS-CAMP is a two-week summer program at Rice University, designed for high school females. The purpose of the program is to prepare them so they will succeed with confidence and enthusiasm when they take computer science courses at their high school the next school year. This year the program will be held from June 20th to June 30th, 2004. The camp is two weeks long. Nine teams of six girls, from nine Houston ISD high schools, will attend. During the camp, we will work on community-building, computer career options, mentoring activities, and will work hard, but will have lots of fun.
        The program doesn't stop there, either. All through the next school year, there will be opportunities to continue to sharpen the skills you learned. We will have regular follow-up sessions, and the students who attend will be part of a listserv where they will be able to stay in contact with each other later.
        More general information about the program is available on the CS-CAMP brochure. If you have Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer, you can read a copy of the brochure here.
 

       Q -- What will the hours and dates for the summer camp be?

       A -- It begins on Monday, June 20th, and ends on Thursday, June 30th.

Camp will begin each day at 9:00 AM and end at 4:00 PM. The computer lab will be open for an extra hour (from 4:00 to 5:00 PM), in case some of the girls want to stay and work on projects a little longer.

       A -- Take a look at the map at this web address, and you can see where the entrances are.

http://www.rice.edu/maps/colormap.pdf

Duncan Hall is Building 29 on the map. Entrances 1, 2, and 16 are the closest ones to Duncan Hall, about a two to four-minute walk away.

If your mom drops you at Entrance 12 or Entrance 8, you will be close to the shuttle bus that circles the campus' Inner Loop Drive about every ten minutes. Just walk to one of the three bus stops from the entrance, catch the shuttle, and tell the bus driver you want to get off at Duncan Hall.

Your mom won't be able to park at the entrances when she picks you up in the afternoon, though. There isn't any place to park on the streets. They are major roads. She can park in the free area near the stadium, and you can easily walk to her car from the shuttle. She can also park near Duncan Hall, on the Inner Loop, for ten minutes or so, but there's not a tremendous amount of space there.

If you're driving yourself, park in the free parking at Entrance 10 (on Greenbriar Drive). There's a bus stop there also, but that shuttledoesn't begin running until 8:30 AM, and stopps running at 4:00 PM, when we let out for the day.. It's a little further away from Duncan, so the bus doesn't run quite as often as the Inner Loop bus (maybe every twelve minutes), but there's lots of free parking there, and you can easily walk from there to the shuttle stop in the Resident Student Lot. Look at this other parking map and roll your cursor over the parking icons on the left side of the map (it's interactive) to get a good idea where everything is.

http://www.rice.edu/maps/parking.html
 

       A -- No. It's summer.

              Sorry, I couldn't resist. Currently, there are no plans to assign homework. You should be able to finish each day's projects that day. If you want a little extra work, though, don't forget that the labs will be open an extra hour at the end of each day.