Vampy

VAMPY is the Summer Program for Verbally and Mathematically Precocious Youth, a three-week residential summer camp offered through the Center for Gifted Studies at Western Kentucky University for students in the 7th through 10th grades. The camp is affiliated with the Duke University Talent Identification Program. In 2007, the camp will run from June 24 to July 14.

At VAMPY, students will sign up for a class (a list of which is provided below), and study it for the duration of the three-week period. Food and dorms are provided in the fees for the camp. Students partake in a variety of other athletic, academic, and recreational activities in addition to their classes.

The Camp is overseen by Doctors Julia and Richard Roberts, who have run the program since its beginning. Classes offered to campers in 2008 were Mathematics, Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, Humanities, Writing, Chemistry, Forensic Chemistry, Genetics, Physics, Revolutions, Geology and Oceanography, Revolutions, Southern Literature, Shakespear, Topical Study of Art and Art History: Space, Self, and Others, and Spectra: Understanding the Universe Through the Analysis of Light .

VAMPY has been subject to nicknames by campers who enjoyed it, one of which is the somewhat famous "Nerd Camp." It was named such because students are basically attending three extra weeks of school over the summer, typically something nerds would enjoy more than most other social classifications.

External links

* [http://www.wku.edu/Dept/Support/AcadAffairs/Gifted/cmsmadesimple/index.php?page=vampy WKU Center for Gifted Studies-VAMPY]