For many of our students, this is their first night away from home.
Our team will treat your children as if they were our own. They will learn, and their world will expand. Here is exactly what the four days involve — and everything you need to do before them.
Complete the registration packet
Three steps in total. Your Club Representative will walk you through them, and you will get a confirmation email at each one — reply to it any time and we will update your answers.
Student Registration Form
Complete and press SUBMIT — nothing is saved until you do. Keep the confirmation email — reply to it any time and we will update your entry.
Open the formWaivers & Permissions
Download, review and sign, then scan the signature page and email it to Registration@stemyea.com.
Open the waivers formHealth & Physical Form
Complete our online health history — it replaces the paper form. Your doctor then completes two pages: an assessment they sign, and the immunization history. Email both to health@stemyea.com — students cannot attend without them.
Open the health formPacking list
We provide the backpack, name badge, lanyard, pens, lab manuals, luggage tags and the STEM YEA tee shirt. Please send your student with the following.
The two days Parents will be on campus
Six places on a campus of fifty-four buildings
Kutztown’s own map lists every building on campus. These are the only ones you need, in the order you will need them.
What your student’s day looks like
A nurse is on site, day and night
A registered nurse is on campus for the entire Academy, distributes all medication and answers health questions. If a student feels unwell or uncomfortable at any point, hall monitors and Rotary volunteers are there day and night.
The Graczyk family, twice over
Daughters Kylie (Class of 2022) and Amelia (Class of 2024) both attended the Academy. Families who send one student often come back — which is the endorsement we trust most.
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Where exactly is the Academy?
Kutztown University, 15200 Kutztown Road, Kutztown, PA 19530. Registration and pick-up are both at the University Place dorm, #43 on the campus map.
What does it cost us?
Nothing. Tuition, housing and meals are covered by your student’s sponsoring Rotary Club. There is no fundraising expectation on families.
What if we have to cancel?
Let us know as early as you can at Registration@stemyea.com so the seat can go to another nominated student.
A four-day, three-night residential STEM academy for nominated 7th graders, funded by the Rotary Clubs of District 7430 and hosted at Kutztown University. Funds are administered by the Allentown West Rotary Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3).
