Noted: An added element to the camp is the Mazomanie Outreach Outpost, recently established in an unused science lab at Mazomanie Elementary School. The outpost will provide an off-campus site that will connect UW-Madison personnel and resources to K-12 teachers, students and community members in southwestern Wisconsin.
Many of the outpostâ??s initiatives will be geared toward increasing the use of inquiry-based science education by public school teachers.
â??The idea is the (outpost) will provide a place where teachers can gather again for workshops, to take additional classes (and) to meet with each other to talk about how theyâ??re going to implement inquiry into their own classroom,â? said Michelle Harris, a biology instructor at UW-Madison and one of the camp organizers.