About 50 African-American boys ages 10-15 learned what it takes to be a leader and work as a team when Hemlock Overlook Regional Park hosted the 15th annual Camp Kappa from June 26 to July 1.

The camp run by members of the Alexandria Alumni chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi is geared towards underprivileged, at-risk boys from metropolitan Washington, D.C. During the week, campers took turns on the Zip Wire and canoed down the Occoquan to learn team-building exercises as well as lessons in social skills and cooperation. They awoke at dawn and went hiking, fishing and swimming — to name a few.   more >>

Omega Psi Phi is building the first residence hall for a black fraternity on the University of South Carolina campus.

The $2 million fraternity house will be the national fraternity's first investment of its kind on any campus and make USC one of a handful of large, state-supported universities in the South to have campus housing owned by an African-American Greek organization.   more >>

It wasn't just a nature hike for 30 students who visited the Bolsa Chica wetlands Friday.

The students, who took part in a program organized by a chapter of the black fraternity Omega Psi Phi, went beyond mere observation to use statistics to calculate the probabilities of finding various wildlife.

For the 10-to 14-year-old girls and boys, who came from Long Beach, Riverside, Compton and other areas, it was a crash course combining their knowledge of nature with their new learning of statistics.   more >>

The students peered into tiny dishes of armyworms. Some used tweezers to poke at pieces of uneaten worm food."Eeew! This one's dead," a student said."It drowned in its own excrement," another explained. More exclamations followed.

The middle and high school students were near the end of a recent two-week outreach program at New College of Florida. The worm experiment, directed by biology professor Elzie McCord, was part of an introduction to health professions sponsored by the college, Gulf Coast South Area Health Education Center and Zeta Phi Beta sorority.  more >>