UB Sustainability Camp

The UB Sustainability Camp is a five day camp blending the STEM fields with sustainable impact around the globe. It is a unique experience combining hands on laboratory projects with field experience on campus and around the community. As a sustainable camp, we aim for a net zero carbon footprint while teaching students how to calculate and decrease their own carbon footprint.

• Hands on activities, games, and competitions
• STEM Themes: energy, product lifecycle, ecology, and carbon footprint
• Societal Factors: global, social, economic, and environmental impact
• Work side by side with university faculty and graduate student mentors
• Lunch with on campus experts and industry professionals
• Community engagement
• Various fields trips and tours including:
  • Sustainable Design Laboratories
  • Environmental Engineering Laboratories
  • Bicycle Tour of North Campus using UB Bikeshare: Includes ride through the heart of North Campus, Ellicott complex, Letchworth Woods, Lake Lasalle, and UB Solar Strand,
  • UB GRoW Home
  • UB Compost Facility
  • UB University Garden
  • Niagara Power Vista
  • Banks of Lake Lasalle Restoration

Each camper who completed the UB Sustainability Camp will go home with camp swag including a T-Shirt, drawstring bag, water bottle, and more. Campers will also receive a solar powered phone charger, a wind turbine, a certificate of completion and a one-of-a-kind experience in sustainability.

All students entering 8th and 9th grade come fall 2019 are eligible to attend the camp. Maximum camp enrollment is 20 students.

Camp tuition is $400 for the entire week and covers all camp materials, food and transportation.

Thanks to our sponsor, National Grid, we are proud to offer need-based scholarships which will bring the cost of the camp down to $150 per student for the entire week. Scholarship consideration is included with your application. We ask that scholarship applicants be from families with a household income less than $60K/year.

We'd also like to thank our donors: Cannon Design, and Industrial Support Inc. for helping to make this camp possible.