August 28, 2025, KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – Oregon Tech would like to announce another successful set of educational summer camps. These camps — the LEGO Camps, NW Cyber Camp, and GIS/Geomatics Camp — were organized and set up by Oregon Tech’s Office of Educational Partnership and Outreach (EPO), helping to foster creativity, teamwork, and computational thinking in the minds of local students.
The LEGO Camp, sponsored by the Oregon Community Foundation Joseph E. Weston Foundation, helps teach kids to create and code using different independently paced units. Beginner camps are held for students from first to third grade, and intermediate camps for students from fourth to sixth grade.
GenCyber and the Oregon Cybersecurity Center of Excellence sponsor the NW Cyber Camp, a group of camps held by various Oregon colleges for high schoolers that aim to ignite, increase, and sustain awareness of secondary cybersecurity content and post-secondary career opportunities.
The GIS/Geomatics Camp, funded by the Oregon Department of Transportation, is a four-day experience exploring geospatial technology and surveying for high school students. Activities included creating mental maps, collecting and analyzing GPS data in ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, and building and flying drones.
In addition to these camps, the Oregon Tech College of Health, Arts, and Sciences hosted the first-ever MedStars Klamath Falls healthcare camp, a collaboration with Cascades East Area Health Education Center and Oregon Health and Science University. This camp helps high school sophomores and juniors explore pathways into a career in healthcare, such as nursing, physical therapy, and dental care.
Oregon Tech also hosted Oregon State University’s iNVENT camp for middle school-age students and collaborated with Klamath Union High School and OHSU for a week-long high school health camp. EPO also collaborated with Tiny Mighty Strong and Oregon Tech Athletics to curate LEGO programming and athletic camps for approximately 95 students, as well as the use of Oregon Tech’s facilities for Tiny Mighty Strong summer programming.
These camps were held at Oregon Tech’s Klamath Falls campus, with this year including LEGO camps held in Chiloquin for the first time.
Altogether, summer programming supported by EPO educated 300 K-12 students. The success of this year’s camps is a display of the amount of work EPO puts into providing these services for students.
“Oregon Tech’s STEM-related programming for the K-12 population ignites curiosity and creativity that will continue to ripple out as students begin a new school year,” said Associate Director of EPO Mary-Jane Owen. “Collaborations among Oregon Tech faculty and staff, local schools and educators, and community-based organizations strengthen our collective goals to guide students toward positive future pathways.”
Depending on the availability and support of our faculty and staff, different programs are held each year. Oregon Tech and the Office of Educational Partnerships and Outreach look forward to having another great summer filled with learning and imagination.
