Badger Football Camps
Instructed by Badger coaches and staff, campers learn football from the ground up, receiving fundamental and technique instruction. Groups are divided by position and grade. Camps for high-schoolers feature a padded environment. The Youth Camp (grades 4–8) is in a non-padded environment. Strength and speed training sessions are provided under the direction of the strength and conditioning coach and staff.
Badger Girls' Golf Camps
The Badger Girls' Golf Camps expose girls to the fundamentals of the game of golf and provide a fun learning environment in a college setting. They are open to girls who have completed grades 6-12. Instruction is provided by outstanding collegiate golf coaches, with assistance from UW golfers. These are residential camps with housing at UW dorms and 24-hour supervision. Instruction and play takes place at University Ridge Golf Course.
Badger Sports Camps
This Web site provides links to all of the sports camps sponsored by the UW–Madison Athletic Department, which offers a variety of opportunities for children of all ages throughout the year. Young athletes can participate in camps and clinics in more than 20 sports, ranging from basketball to rowing to golf. Camps range in length, price, and age level, and most are supervised by UW coaches and players. Information on individual camps is posted when it becomes available.
Badger Winter Tennis Camp
The Badger Winter Tennis Camp serves up a combination of tennis drills, tactical situations, and match play. The object of this three-day camp is to further develop the game of experienced players as well as introduce the sport of tennis to newcomers by providing a fun, organized and educational environment. The camp takes place at the Nielsen Tennis Center on the UW–Madison campus and is coached by Patti Henderson and Greg VanEmburgh.
Barry Davis's Wisconsin Wrestling Camp
Designed for beginners to elite wrestlers, each camp is adapted to individual skills and abilities. Options include Takedown Camp; Intensive Camp; Technique Camp; and Badger Team Camp, for coaches and teams to attend together. These are residential camps.
BioLEARN (Linking Educators As a Resource Network)
The BioLEARN Web site includes a set of teaching resources created for and by Wisconsin high school and middle school biology teachers. Activities have been reviewed and classroom-tested by teams of teachers and are aligned with Wisconsin Model Academic Standards. The Web site includes a template for teachers to develop new activities and a rubric for reviewing their own or others' teaching materials.
Biology Outreach Club
The Biology Outreach Club is a group of mainly graduate students who bring hands-on biology activities to young learners and the public – on campus, throughout the Madison community, and around the state of Wisconsin. Its goal is to help people of all ages explore the excitement and wonder of biology. In 2007, the club received an Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment, which will enable members to design new outreach materials on a range of biology topics and make the materials available to teachers statewide. During the three-year grant period, the group also plans to conduct 20 outreach events per year.
BioTrek
BioTrek is the science outreach program of the Biotechnology Center of UW–Madison and of UW–Extension. BioTrek engages the public in the outreach mission of the University by providing tours and workshops at the Biotechnology Center on the UW–Madison campus. The program also offers workshops and inservices anywhere in Wisconsin for teachers, learners of any age, 4-H and other Cooperative Extension groups, community clubs, and any interested group. BioTrek's mission is "Sharing Science With Wisconsin." Its goal is to transform how people view and do science, and to better enable people to use science in making personal choices and public policies.
Botany Garden Insects
Lovers of butterflies and dragonflies will enjoy a Web site created by the UW–Madison Botany Department, which has collected photographs of butterflies and dragonflies found in Wisconsin.
Bottle Biology
The Bottle Biology Web site shows how bottles can be used to explore science and the environment. Visitors can create ecosystems, explore the concept of "niche," model a lakeshore, breed fruit flies and spiders, observe the adventures of slime molds, or pickle cabbage. The many fun projects on this site promote science as a tool everyone can use to explore the world. These explorations also can be integrated with history, art, music, and other creative endeavors. The Wisconsin Fast Plants Program produces instructional materials for the Bottle Biology Manual. The Web site includes sample activities from the manual.
Bucky's Badger Den
A true Badger fan knows Bucky's full name (Buckingham U. Badger)! Other fun facts about the Badgers, Badger news, online games, a sing-a-long, and much more are available through Bucky's Web site for kids, maintained by the UW–Madison Athletic Department.
CALS Day for Kids
Held every year in April, CALS Day for Kids gives students in fourth grade an opportunity to learn about agriculture and science. The event is organized by the CALS (College of Agricultural and Life Sciences) Student Council, which sets up more than 20 booths that give the fourth-graders an opportunity to explore subjects ranging from baby animals to food sources to DNA extraction.
Camp Badger Exploring Engineering Program
Engineers design everything from skateboards to rockets, help provide electricity and other energy sources to keep people comfortable and healthy, build structures that are safe and comfortable to live and work in, and improve life on a daily basis by solving existing problems and helping avoid future problems. Wisconsin 7th graders who are entering 8th grade in the fall are invited to join this one-week residential program to learn about engineering and begin to see the study of science and math as a path that can lead to great careers. Requirements: Students entering 8th grade; application form and typewritten student essay (due in spring).
Camp of Champions Distance Running Camp
The nation's premier distance-running camp provides quality individual instruction in techniques and training for middle- and long-distance running. Held in Madison, the camp features individualized coaching and world-ranked runners as special guests/lecturers. Requirements: Application form and health form, available through the Web site or from the Athletic Department office.
Career Development Facilitator Training
Career Development Facilitator (CDF) training is designed to enhance the skills and knowledge of individuals who work in any type of career development setting. CDFs from past classes have included those who work in corporations, government agencies, technical colleges, small private companies, large universities, high schools and middle schools, correctional institutions, and entrepreneurial settings. All CDF course applicants must have a high school diploma to enroll in the class. This program is housed in the Center on Education and Work in the UW–Madison School of Education.