Overview
SMILE Camp was originally created to address the needs of academically/intellectually gifted students to explore real science while doing so among peers. SMILE began as a partnership between the Academic and Intellectually Gifted Department of Wake County Public Schools (WCPSS) and the North Carolina State University Department of Materials Science & Engineering. The camp began in the labs and classrooms of Engineering Building I on the NCSU Centennial Campus. Each camp's experiments are different and over 250 different experiments have been completed in SMILE Camp's eight year history.
Our Mission: Our mission is to foster student interest in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) for elementary, middle school, high school, and beyond. We introduce students to real hands-on science, surround them with intellectual peers, and challenge them to work to their potential. We would like to inspire a lifelong passion for STEAM fields.
