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College for Kids gives middle school students taste of higher education

On a recent sunny afternoon, concoctions of chocolate chips, butterscotch chips and marshmallows were melting in foil-lined boxes at the top of the steps leading to Chamberlain Hall.

Inside the UW-Madison building, middle-school-aged students were looking out a classroom window through pinhole cameras they built. Roller coasters made of flexible pipe were taped to a wall. These activities were all part of the Wonders of Physics workshop during College for Kids â?? a summer program sponsored by the UW-Madison School of Education.